[CentOS] what is the best way to delete so many queue files?

2009-08-28 Thread MontyRee
Hello, all. I found that so many unnessary queue files are saved at /var/spool/clientmqueue/ directory. I tested two way to delete these files. 1. # rm -rf /var/spool/clientmqueue/* 2. # cd /var/spool/clientmqueue/ ; find . | xargs rm -fv But this makes a few load of the system

Re: [CentOS] my fonts look horrible (centos5.3/xfce)

2009-08-28 Thread Ryan Pugatch
Johnny Hughes wrote: >> I never had jagged fonts with the standard xfce in extras and normal >> CentOS using the liberation fonts and the standard freetype from centos. >> I was using the same fonts I used in Gnome. >> >> Maybe I am missing something, why did you need to rebuild freetype? >> >>

Re: [CentOS] Need httpd / apache RPM > 2.2.3 for 5.3

2009-08-28 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:11:19 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > OK, here is the interesting part :-) > > I'm new here as of about 4 months ago, and I just asked some coworkers > why we went with 2.2.10 instead of the 2.2.3 that comes with CentOS > > Apparently at the time we'd been having s

Re: [CentOS] favicon.ico and robots.txt

2009-08-28 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:46:43 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Hello, > I'm running an apache 2.2 webserver on centos 5.3. I'm seeing > frequent requests for robots.txt and favicon.ico from the logs those files > should be in the document root area. What are these files, is this someth

Re: [CentOS] using Linux as a NAS / SAN device

2009-08-28 Thread Scott Silva
on 8-27-2009 3:12 PM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: > Hi, > > I'm looking at using Linux as a NAS / SAN device, and would like some > input from other's who have done this before? > > How would it compare to commercial SAN devices, Thecus N8800SAS > (http://www.thecus.com/products_over.php?cid=

Re: [CentOS] using Linux as a NAS / SAN device

2009-08-28 Thread Les Mikesell
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > The thing is, how will these kind of option perform in a hosting > environment where downtime isn't at all an option. We have backup > generators, UPS, load balanced networks, etc Even the Tyan / > SuperMicro machines that I'm looking at will have redundant power > supplies

Re: [CentOS] Need httpd / apache RPM > 2.2.3 for 5.3

2009-08-28 Thread Johnny Hughes
Joe Pruett wrote: >> H, OK, I get it. >> >> I know I can build the latest Apache on CentOS, and what we currently >> do is put it into /usr/local - which I guess works. >> >> I'd really prefer to have an RPM though. >> >> Certainly the CentOS team as a way in which they produce this RPM. >> Is

Re: [CentOS] using Linux as a NAS / SAN device

2009-08-28 Thread nate
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > But the one piece of of the puzzle that I don't understand, will a > self-build-Linux NAS device, or even Openfiler / FreeNAS give us that > kind of uptime. You say that downtime is not an option, so I can say with absolute confidence there really is nothing you can build for

Re: [CentOS] favicon.ico and robots.txt

2009-08-28 Thread centos
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:54:02 -0700 Taproot wrote: > Robots.txt is a file that allows or denies robots from indexing or > crawling the site if they behave as they should. It's a common misconception. Robots.txt does NOT allow or deny... Robots.txt only SUGGESTs what they should crawl or not. It'

[CentOS] Need httpd / apache RPM > 2.2.3 for 5.3

2009-08-28 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Alan McKay wrote: > Is there a document that will tell me what patch levels were shipped > with the different releases of CentOS? In particular 5.2? Two come to mind that we ship with every binary we alter, evey package we build: - one is the SRPM, which contains al

Re: [CentOS] using Linux as a NAS / SAN device

2009-08-28 Thread Les Mikesell
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > Something else I just realized, dedicated NAS devices can rebuild the > RAID system on the fly, and offer online RAID migration and expansion, > load balance, and failover - how would one do these with Linux? Look at the mdadm tools for raid. Rebuilding on the fly is no pr

[CentOS] OT: .doc,.xls,.pdf,.ppt (etc.) string parser/indexers

2009-08-28 Thread Les Mikesell
Does anyone have experience with linux tools to parse the text from common non-text file formats for searching? I'm trying to use the kinosearch add-on for twiki which is fine as far as the search goes, but it takes forever to generate the index. It uses xpdf to extract strings from pdf's, ant

Re: [CentOS] Setting up large (12.5 TB) filesystem howto?

2009-08-28 Thread Johnny Hughes
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 at 8:58am, Akemi Yagi wrote > >> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain >> wrote: >> >>> You do not have to switch to 64bit, and your setup should be fully >>> supported. Other folks have mentioned XFS, and that's an option. >>> But

Re: [CentOS] Setting up large (12.5 TB) filesystem howto?

2009-08-28 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 at 8:58am, Akemi Yagi wrote >> Support for xfs has been added to RHEL 5.4 which will be released any day >> now. > > So it has.  I recall looking in the beta release notes when they first came > out and not seeing it

Re: [CentOS] Setting up large (12.5 TB) filesystem howto?

2009-08-28 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 at 8:58am, Akemi Yagi wrote On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: You do not have to switch to 64bit, and your setup should be fully supported.  Other folks have mentioned XFS, and that's an option.  But if you want to stay fully compatible with upstre

Re: [CentOS] Setting up large (12.5 TB) filesystem howto?

2009-08-28 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:53 AM, David Fix wrote: > And just to add to the discussion... > > We use JFS here for large filesystems.  :)  (We have some 24TB filesystems > in place here using JFS, with no problems like XFS has when it gets > corrupted). Because the distro kernel does not have suppor

Re: [CentOS] using Linux as a NAS / SAN device

2009-08-28 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > At Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:53:29 +0200 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > >> >> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Robert Heller wrote: >> > >> > I think many dedicated NAS devices, are in fact Linux machines, using an >> > embedded Linux system. S

Re: [CentOS] Setting up large (12.5 TB) filesystem howto?

2009-08-28 Thread David Fix
And just to add to the discussion... We use JFS here for large filesystems. :) (We have some 24TB filesystems in place here using JFS, with no problems like XFS has when it gets corrupted). -- David Fix Senior Systems Administrator Mr. X Inc. 35 McCaul Street, Ste. #100 Toronto, ON M5T 1V

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4

2009-08-28 Thread Johnny Hughes
Alan McKay wrote: > I just saw in another list email that RHEL 5.4 is due out any day now. > > How long does it then take for the cooresponding CentOS release to come out? > > I'm in the process of making a new master server image based on 5.3. > Though I suppose since I'm using Kickstart/Anacond

Re: [CentOS] Need httpd / apache RPM > 2.2.3 for 5.3

2009-08-28 Thread Joe Pruett
> H, OK, I get it. > > I know I can build the latest Apache on CentOS, and what we currently > do is put it into /usr/local - which I guess works. > > I'd really prefer to have an RPM though. > > Certainly the CentOS team as a way in which they produce this RPM. > Is this method public? And if

[CentOS] Centos 5.4

2009-08-28 Thread Alan McKay
I just saw in another list email that RHEL 5.4 is due out any day now. How long does it then take for the cooresponding CentOS release to come out? I'm in the process of making a new master server image based on 5.3. Though I suppose since I'm using Kickstart/Anaconda, it should be pretty easy to

Re: [CentOS] Need httpd / apache RPM > 2.2.3 for 5.3

2009-08-28 Thread Alan McKay
OK, here is the interesting part :-) I'm new here as of about 4 months ago, and I just asked some coworkers why we went with 2.2.10 instead of the 2.2.3 that comes with CentOS Apparently at the time we'd been having some problems with mod_perl crashing (and still are in fact - I'm working on it s

Re: [CentOS] Setting up large (12.5 TB) filesystem howto?

2009-08-28 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > You do not have to switch to 64bit, and your setup should be fully > supported.  Other folks have mentioned XFS, and that's an option.  But if > you want to stay fully compatible with upstream, then ext3 is your only > option. Support

Re: [CentOS] favicon.ico and robots.txt

2009-08-28 Thread Taproot
Robots.txt is a file that allows or denies robots from indexing or crawling the site if they behave as they should. Favicon.ico is an icon image that shows up in the address bar of a browser generally to the left of the uri. Neither are completely necessary and both are items you would create a

Re: [CentOS] favicon.ico and robots.txt

2009-08-28 Thread Brian Mathis
favicon.ico: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=favicon.ico robots.txt: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=robots.txt On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Dave wrote: > Hello, >        I'm running an apache 2.2 webserver on centos 5.3. I'm seeing > frequent requests for robots.txt and favicon.ico from the logs

[CentOS] favicon.ico and robots.txt

2009-08-28 Thread Dave
Hello, I'm running an apache 2.2 webserver on centos 5.3. I'm seeing frequent requests for robots.txt and favicon.ico from the logs those files should be in the document root area. What are these files, is this something the rpm installs, or do i have to retrieve or generate them? Thanks. D

Re: [CentOS] Setting up large (12.5 TB) filesystem howto?

2009-08-28 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 at 1:03pm, Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote fdisk and parted fail to create any information on the device or fail completely. You can't use fdisk on a volume that large. parted should work fine. What was the error you were getting (exactly)? For a volume that large,

Re: [CentOS] Antwort: Re: Strange connectivity problem from linux.

2009-08-28 Thread Tharun Kumar Allu
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:01 AM, wrote: > Les Mikesell  schrieb am 27.08.2009 20:53:14: >> I'd assume that 'telnet hostname 443' is intended to be a test for >> an https web service - which should in fact not permit a connection >> without ssl encryption. The linux version of telnet probably trie

Re: [CentOS] Need httpd / apache RPM > 2.2.3 for 5.3

2009-08-28 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > H, OK, I get it. > > Certainly the CentOS team as a way in which they produce this RPM. > Is this method public?  And if so, is it easy to obtain, and run > against the latest Apache source code to produce my own RPM? The CentOS method is

Re: [CentOS] Need httpd / apache RPM > 2.2.3 for 5.3

2009-08-28 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:32, Alan McKay wrote: > It looks to me like the httpd on CentOS is stuck at 2.2.2 - what's up > with that?  Even after a yum upgrade. As Jim suggested, please read this: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting/ The whole point of using an "Enterprise" di

Re: [CentOS] Need httpd / apache RPM > 2.2.3 for 5.3

2009-08-28 Thread Johnny Hughes
Alan McKay wrote: > H, OK, I get it. > > I know I can build the latest Apache on CentOS, and what we currently > do is put it into /usr/local - which I guess works. > > I'd really prefer to have an RPM though. > > Certainly the CentOS team as a way in which they produce this RPM. > Is this m

Re: [CentOS] Need httpd / apache RPM > 2.2.3 for 5.3

2009-08-28 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:48:51 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > H, OK, I get it. > > I know I can build the latest Apache on CentOS, and what we currently > do is put it into /usr/local - which I guess works. > > I'd really prefer to have an RPM though. > > Certainly the CentOS team as

[CentOS] "gpg --verify-files" fails on some files, works on others

2009-08-28 Thread Sean Carolan
I have a very strange situation where the gpg command will fail to verify whether there is valid PGP data in some files. Decrypting these files works flawlessly. Here is an example: [r...@server autoimport]# gpg -vv --verify-files 01UserEnumswValues.txt.asc.txt gpg: armor: BEGIN PGP MESSAGE gpg:

Re: [CentOS] Need httpd / apache RPM > 2.2.3 for 5.3

2009-08-28 Thread Alan McKay
H, OK, I get it. I know I can build the latest Apache on CentOS, and what we currently do is put it into /usr/local - which I guess works. I'd really prefer to have an RPM though. Certainly the CentOS team as a way in which they produce this RPM. Is this method public? And if so, is it easy

Re: [CentOS] Need httpd / apache RPM > 2.2.3 for 5.3

2009-08-28 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > It looks to me like the httpd on CentOS is stuck at 2.2.2 - what's up > with that?  Even after a yum upgrade. > > I need 2.2.10 or greater, and would prefer to get it via yum or at > very last an RPM if at all possible.  But I can

[CentOS] Need httpd / apache RPM > 2.2.3 for 5.3

2009-08-28 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, It looks to me like the httpd on CentOS is stuck at 2.2.2 - what's up with that? Even after a yum upgrade. I need 2.2.10 or greater, and would prefer to get it via yum or at very last an RPM if at all possible. But I cannot even find an RPM out there. For some reason both EPEL and D

Re: [CentOS] Setting up large (12.5 TB) filesystem howto?

2009-08-28 Thread Monty Shinn
Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to set up an iscsi 12.5 TB storage for some data backup. > > Doing so, I had some difficulties to find the right tool, maybe it's > also a question of the system settings... > > The server is a 32Bit CentOS 5.3 with the recent updates. T

Re: [CentOS] Setting up large (12.5 TB) filesystem howto?

2009-08-28 Thread Neil Muller
On 28/08/2009, at 10:59 PM, Jim Perrin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Götz Reinicke - > IT-Koordinator wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to set up an iscsi 12.5 TB storage for some data backup. >> >> Doing so, I had some difficulties to find the right tool, maybe it's >> also a question of

Re: [CentOS] Setting up large (12.5 TB) filesystem howto?

2009-08-28 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to set up an iscsi 12.5 TB storage for some data backup. > > Doing so, I had some difficulties to find the right tool, maybe it's > also a question of the system settings... > > The server is a 32Bit CentOS

Re: [CentOS] [off-topic] Question about csh.

2009-08-28 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:17:58 +0100 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Hi > > I received this request from a user and could not find the solution. I > would like to know if someone already solved this: > "At the command prompt I used to be able to type the first letter of a > line command and the

Re: [CentOS] using Linux as a NAS / SAN device

2009-08-28 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:53:29 +0200 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > > > > I think many dedicated NAS devices, are in fact Linux machines, using an > > embedded Linux system. > > > >> > > > > -- > > Robert Heller             -- 978-544

Re: [CentOS] bind

2009-08-28 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 04:11 -0700, chloe K wrote: > Hi > > I already stop the named and killall bind process. > how can I clear the files under named/chroot/proc/ folder as those > files are restricted me for tar backup? > > /var/named/chroot/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/lo/accept_ra_defrtr Exclud

Re: [CentOS] mysql-server-5.0.82sp1-1.el4_8 upgrade

2009-08-28 Thread Johnny Hughes
Alexander Dalloz wrote: >> Hi, >> There has been update to mysql within the centosplus repository on 26th >> August. Please be aware, that you might need to upgrade tables after the >> server upgrade. >> >> 1) run CHECK TABLE >> 2) if the response is 'Table upgrade required. Please do "REPAIR

Re: [CentOS] Setting up large (12.5 TB) filesystem howto?

2009-08-28 Thread Tim Verhoeven
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote: > > I'm trying to set up an iscsi 12.5 TB storage for some data backup. > > Doing so, I had some difficulties to find the right tool, maybe it's > also a question of the system settings... > > The server is a 32Bit CentOS 5.3 wi

Re: [CentOS] my fonts look horrible (centos5.3/xfce)

2009-08-28 Thread Johnny Hughes
RedShift wrote: > Ryan Pugatch wrote: >> Yes, I changed the variable in the spec and installed the RPM I built. >> I am on a 64-bit machine but did not install a 32-bit RPM. >> >> Looks like there are two versions.. the original and mine. What should >> I do? >> >> Requested output: >> >> [r...@

[CentOS] bind

2009-08-28 Thread chloe K
Hi   I already stop the named and killall bind process. how can I clear the files under named/chroot/proc/ folder as those files are restricted me for tar backup?   /var/named/chroot/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/lo/accept_ra_defrtr /var/named/chroot/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/lo/max_addresses /var/named/ch

Re: [CentOS] mysql-server-5.0.82sp1-1.el4_8 upgrade

2009-08-28 Thread Alexander Dalloz
> Hi, > There has been update to mysql within the centosplus repository on 26th > August. Please be aware, that you might need to upgrade tables after the > server upgrade. > > 1) run CHECK TABLE > 2) if the response is 'Table upgrade required. Please do "REPAIR TABLE > `tablename`" to fix it!

[CentOS] Setting up large (12.5 TB) filesystem howto?

2009-08-28 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator
Hi, I'm trying to set up an iscsi 12.5 TB storage for some data backup. Doing so, I had some difficulties to find the right tool, maybe it's also a question of the system settings... The server is a 32Bit CentOS 5.3 with the recent updates. Ths iscsi connection can be establised. fdisk and part

[CentOS] [off-topic] Question about csh.

2009-08-28 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Hi I received this request from a user and could not find the solution. I would like to know if someone already solved this: "At the command prompt I used to be able to type the first letter of a line command and then by using the up arrow key, scroll through all of the line commands, that begi

Re: [CentOS] Help Slim Down Centos Install

2009-08-28 Thread John Doe
From: Chris Andrews > I was wondering does anyone know how I can slim down Centos install, > what I mean by slim down is whenever I install Centos with nothing but > xen. I have all type stuff that is not needed like bluetooth and etc. > This is a server, so I know that bluetooth is not need but I

[CentOS] mysql-server-5.0.82sp1-1.el4_8 upgrade

2009-08-28 Thread David Hrbáč
Hi, There has been update to mysql within the centosplus repository on 26th August. Please be aware, that you might need to upgrade tables after the server upgrade. 1) run CHECK TABLE 2) if the response is 'Table upgrade required. Please do "REPAIR TABLE `tablename`" to fix it!' 3) do run :o)

Re: [CentOS] my fonts look horrible (centos5.3/xfce)

2009-08-28 Thread RedShift
Ryan Pugatch wrote: > > Yes, I changed the variable in the spec and installed the RPM I built. > I am on a 64-bit machine but did not install a 32-bit RPM. > > Looks like there are two versions.. the original and mine. What should > I do? > > Requested output: > > [r...@localhost ~]$ rpm -qi

Re: [CentOS] my fonts look horrible (centos5.3/xfce)

2009-08-28 Thread Johnny Hughes
RedShift wrote: > Ryan Pugatch wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I can't seem to get my fonts to look decent under CentOS. I was able to >> make them look pretty good under Ubuntu, but for the life of me I can't >> make them look decent on CentOS. >> >> Screenshots: >> http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/8

Re: [CentOS] my fonts look horrible (centos5.3/xfce)

2009-08-28 Thread Johnny Hughes
Johnny Hughes wrote: > Ryan Pugatch wrote: >> Lucian @ lastdot.org wrote: >> >>> rpm -ivh http://repo.lastdot.org/tmp/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm >>> service xfs restart >>> Restart your application.. >>> Is it working now? >>> ___ >>> CentOS mailing l

Re: [CentOS] my fonts look horrible (centos5.3/xfce)

2009-08-28 Thread Johnny Hughes
Ryan Pugatch wrote: > Lucian @ lastdot.org wrote: > >> rpm -ivh http://repo.lastdot.org/tmp/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm >> service xfs restart >> Restart your application.. >> Is it working now? >> ___ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS@centos.org >> ht

Re: [CentOS] my fonts look horrible (centos5.3/xfce)

2009-08-28 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
> Thanks for the links.  I have already basically done everything > there and have the ms fonts.  Unfortunately they look pretty bad.. I have not followed the thread carefully, but I've seen in a couple of screenshots that bitmaps fonts might have been used. Have you tried this? "ln -s /etc/font

[CentOS] Antwort: Re: Strange connectivity problem from linux.

2009-08-28 Thread Frank . Brodbeck
Les Mikesell schrieb am 27.08.2009 20:53:14: > I'd assume that 'telnet hostname 443' is intended to be a test for > an https web service - which should in fact not permit a connection > without ssl encryption. The linux version of telnet probably tries > to do some options negotiations before

Re: [CentOS] using Linux as a NAS / SAN device

2009-08-28 Thread Rudi Ahlers
> > These aren't centos based - or even all linux, but the software-NAS > players are: > http://www.openfiler.com/ > http://www.freenas.org/ > http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=4&Itemid=67 > > Or you can just use a generic disto with separate configuration