[CentOS-es] samba, centos 5.5

2010-06-18 Thread edgarr789
Hola lista, tengo una pequeña pregunta, no se si tal vez sea error o no, les cuento q estuve viendo configurar un servicio en samba sobre centos 5.5, al final logre compartir recursos entre centos y windows, el detalle q no me queda calro es q cuando inicio el servicio /etc/init.d/smb start o

[CentOS-es] Saludos Sobre Xinerama

2010-06-18 Thread Yoinier Hernandez Nieves
Saludos, en la PC que estoy usando de escritorio instale el compiz, pero me dice que no puede iniciar los efectos de escritorio cuando esta presente Xinerama. Segun he leido, Xinerama es para escritorios multiples, pero solo tengo uno?? como lo puedo deshabilitar?? Uso CentOS 5.5. Yoinier.

Re: [CentOS-es] Saludos Sobre Xinerama

2010-06-18 Thread Oscar Osta Pueyo
Hola, 2010/6/18 Yoinier Hernandez Nieves ynie...@teico.lt.minaz.cu: Saludos, en la PC que estoy usando de escritorio instale el compiz, pero me dice que no puede iniciar los efectos de escritorio cuando esta presente Xinerama. Segun he leido, Xinerama es para escritorios multiples, pero solo

[CentOS] free ftp server

2010-06-18 Thread MOKRANI Rachid
Hi, I'm looking a linux freeware for sharing file with a web browser interface - protect file by password, send link to download by email Something like the following service: https://www.yousendit.com/ http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/15-great-free-online-file-sharing-alternati ves/ The

Re: [CentOS] free ftp server

2010-06-18 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
On 06/18/2010 08:42 AM, MOKRANI Rachid wrote: Hi, I'm looking a linux freeware for sharing file with a web browser interface - protect file by password, send link to download by email Something like the following service: https://www.yousendit.com/

Re: [CentOS] How to measure file transfer speed?

2010-06-18 Thread Theo Band
hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All I have one centos server equipped with WiFi . I want to measure data rate speed on this connection . Is there any utility on my centos that can measure data speed on one specific Ethernet connection when transferring large size files through WiFi connection?

[CentOS] Kernel independent OCFS2 packages for RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS

2010-06-18 Thread Dag Wieers
Hi, I would like to announce a set of OCFS2 kABI-tracking kernel module packages for RHEL5, Scientific Linux 5 and CentOS-5 and kernels. These packages have been introduced into the ELRepo testing repository (http://elrepo.org/). You can find these packages at:

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-18 Thread John Doe
From: John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:09:11PM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: I should care what you believe? Is this vitriol really necessary? I think it is just a reaction to the I don't believe you at all, which some people would take as you are a liar... That's

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-18 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Boris Epstein wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:05 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Boris wrote: I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody

[CentOS] Yum problem on Centos 5.3 (64-bit)

2010-06-18 Thread John Kelly
Hello, I'm having a yum problem updating a system on Centos 5.3, 64-bit ... i.e. 'yum update' returns No Packages Marked for Update. Problem appears to be related to connecting to the mirrors where the repositories are located but I could be wrong in that. What's confusing me is that I have

[CentOS] BIND: listen-on and allow-recursion

2010-06-18 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'm currently trying to get a grasp on DNS and Bind. I admit the documentation is quite confusing, either too laconic or way too detailed. So I'm trying to start from a working example, and then bite my way through it. I have a sample named.conf file from Carla Schroder's Linux Cookbook.

[CentOS] recognizing correct number of cores on CPU

2010-06-18 Thread Jerry Geis
I just installed centos 5.5 x86_64 on a new HP laptop. It has the core i5 processor. only 1 cpu is detected should be 2. This has happened before. Is upstream not keeping up with new processors released and updating the kernel? I'd rather not go through the process again of putting a newer

Re: [CentOS] BIND: listen-on and allow-recursion

2010-06-18 Thread John Doe
From: Niki Kovacs cont...@kikinovak.net listen-on allow-recursion As far as I understand, the purpose of these two stanzas is to limit access to the DNS server to 1) the server itself and 2) the local 10.11.12.0/24 network. In that case, there seems to be some redundancy in the syntax.

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-18 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:22:35PM -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: Is this vitriol really necessary? I installed ganglia; not a single conflict. Why yes, John, it is. The fine man said outright he didn't believe my honest account, accusing me of making something up when I was only

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-18 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:10:29PM -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:01:02PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: That being said, it's trivial to recompile the F13 RPM for 3.1.2 for centos-5. And that would be the proper route to go instead of building

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-18 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Whit Blauvelt wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:22:35PM -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: snip If you want shiny and new, why not do it properly and build rpms? long snip On the whole, this list is professional. I like that. But look, ./configure, make, make install is _always_ a

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-18 Thread Les Mikesell
Whit Blauvelt wrote: You installed without a conflict, good. Perhaps you were installing on a 32-bit system rather than a 64-bit? Perhaps your system didn't have some of the packages already installed for other functionality that mine did? All I can say is that, for my system, yum saw version

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-18 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:19:46PM -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: I just tried a ganglia install from EPEL; absolutely no issues at all. Perhaps if you'd bother to actually document these conflicts one of us might be able to help. That is if we're still willing. Now

Re: [CentOS] 5.5 gspca

2010-06-18 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 16:10 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: snip Ok, so I got the src rpm from el repo. Lessee, first I tried rpmbuild, and that failed, because it *required* xen-devel. So I grabbed the tarfile from /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES, unbzip2'd it, untar'd it, and did a make. And ten

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-18 Thread Les Mikesell
Whit Blauvelt wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:10:29PM -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:01:02PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: That being said, it's trivial to recompile the F13 RPM for 3.1.2 for centos-5. And that would be the proper route to go instead of

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 08:14:02AM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:22:35PM -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: Is this vitriol really necessary? I installed ganglia; not a single conflict. Why yes, John, it is. The fine man said outright he didn't believe my

Re: [CentOS] free ftp server

2010-06-18 Thread Greg Bailey
MOKRANI Rachid wrote: Hi, I'm looking a linux freeware for sharing file with a web browser interface - protect file by password, send link to download by email Something like the following service: https://www.yousendit.com/

Re: [CentOS] 5.5 gspca

2010-06-18 Thread Ned Slider
On 18/06/10 14:10, JohnS wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 16:10 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: snip Ok, so I got the src rpm from el repo. Lessee, first I tried rpmbuild, and that failed, because it *required* xen-devel. So I grabbed the tarfile from /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES, unbzip2'd it,

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-18 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:19:46PM -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: If there were a good CentOS build of 3.1.7 I'd happily use it. But getting stuff from EPEL, which is essentially Redhat testing, is as silly as mixing Uh, you've confused EPEL and Fedora apparently. Hey John,

Re: [CentOS] recognizing correct number of cores on CPU

2010-06-18 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 18 June 2010, Jerry Geis wrote: I just installed centos 5.5 x86_64 on a new HP laptop. It has the core i5 processor. only 1 cpu is detected should be 2. This has happened before. Is upstream not keeping up with new processors released and updating the kernel? I've used the stock

Re: [CentOS] 5.5 gspca

2010-06-18 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 14:50 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: On 18/06/10 14:10, JohnS wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 16:10 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: snip Ok, so I got the src rpm from el repo. Lessee, first I tried rpmbuild, and that failed, because it *required* xen-devel. So I grabbed

Re: [CentOS] recognizing correct number of cores on CPU

2010-06-18 Thread JJ
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Peter Kjellstrom Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 9:19 AM To: centos@centos.org Cc: Jerry Geis Subject: Re: [CentOS] recognizing correct number of cores on CPU On Friday 18 June 2010, Jerry

Re: [CentOS] 5.5 gspca

2010-06-18 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 10:22 -0400, JohnS wrote: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules#head-b86b6eec08d5719cf1838929f26a64af88e2b7f0 rpmbuild -ba --target=i686 --define 'kvariants ' video4linux-kmod.spec If you don't, then by default the package will be built for

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/18/2010 9:01 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: If there were a good CentOS build of 3.1.7 I'd happily use it. But getting stuff from EPEL, which is essentially Redhat testing, is as silly as mixing Uh, you've confused EPEL and Fedora apparently. Hey John,

Re: [CentOS] recognizing correct number of cores on CPU

2010-06-18 Thread Jerry Geis
Peter Kjellstrom wrote: On Friday 18 June 2010, Jerry Geis wrote: I just installed centos 5.5 x86_64 on a new HP laptop. It has the core i5 processor. only 1 cpu is detected should be 2. This has happened before. Is upstream not keeping up with new processors released and updating the

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/18/2010 8:20 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 08:14:02AM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:22:35PM -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: Is this vitriol really necessary? I installed ganglia; not a single conflict. Why yes, John, it is. The

Re: [CentOS] 5.5 gspca

2010-06-18 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 14:50 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: On 18/06/10 14:10, JohnS wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 16:10 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: snip Ok, so I got the src rpm from el repo. Lessee, first I tried rpmbuild, and that failed, because it *required* xen-devel. So I grabbed

Re: [CentOS] recognizing correct number of cores on CPU

2010-06-18 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 18 June 2010, Jerry Geis wrote: Peter Kjellstrom wrote: ... More information would also be nice (like dmesg output). /Peter I'd rather not go through the process again of putting a newer kernel on the machine and having something different out there than stock centos.

Re: [CentOS] recognizing correct number of cores on CPU

2010-06-18 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Jerry Geis wrote: Peter Kjellstrom wrote: On Friday 18 June 2010, Jerry Geis wrote: I just installed centos 5.5 x86_64 on a new HP laptop. It has the core i5 processor. only 1 cpu is detected should be 2. dmesg is : Linux version 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5

Re: [CentOS] recognizing correct number of cores on CPU

2010-06-18 Thread Jerry Geis
Peter Kjellstrom wrote: On Friday 18 June 2010, Jerry Geis wrote: Peter Kjellstrom wrote: ... More information would also be nice (like dmesg output). /Peter I'd rather not go through the process again of putting a newer kernel on the machine and having something

[CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-18 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have to rebuild a new Nagios box and thought this might be a good time to migrate away. I use snmp mostly for everything but with the fork Nagios endured I wonder about putting any more effort into the project. I probably should look at OpenNMS again, but the other options I think might work

Re: [CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-18 Thread Baird, Josh
I am a pretty hardcore ZenOSS user.. We use it to monitor over 1000 devices in different fashions - using a combination of SNMP (Linux), WMI (windows) and SSH (Unix/Aix). While there is a slight learning curve to get everything working the way you want - it is, in my opinion, the most powerful

Re: [CentOS] 5.5 gspca

2010-06-18 Thread m . roth
JohnS wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 16:10 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: snip Ok, so I got the src rpm from el repo. Lessee, first I tried rpmbuild, and that failed, because it *required* xen-devel. So I grabbed the tarfile from /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES, unbzip2'd it, untar'd it, and did a

Re: [CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/18/2010 10:31 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I have to rebuild a new Nagios box and thought this might be a good time to migrate away. I use snmp mostly for everything but with the fork Nagios endured I wonder about putting any more effort into the project. I probably should look at OpenNMS

Re: [CentOS] 5.5 gspca

2010-06-18 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 11:34 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Um, what's kernel-rt got to do with anything I said? And actually, the first server I'm trying to build this on is a Sunfire, but it's running Opterons, and the o/s is 64-bit. I also do *not* have any xen installed. Fine, I tried

Re: [CentOS] recognizing correct number of cores on CPU

2010-06-18 Thread Jerry Geis
All, I booted with 2.6.18 kernel with only noapic acpi=off I removed the apci=off and the kernel still dumps with a bunch of messages about acpi. I have installed 2.6.34 kernel on the box. I can boot without the acpi=off and I get all 4 cores on this box. if I put in the acpi=off it only

[CentOS] Upgrade

2010-06-18 Thread tony . chamberlain
I am currently running CentOS 4.5 (which, through many Yum updates) now appears to be CentOD 4.8. 4.8 is still rather old, but I havbe lots of stuff (files and stuff installed). I would like to install Fedora but I am worried about losing all the stuff I have. I would have to back everything

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade

2010-06-18 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:26:08 + CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: I am currently running CentOS 4.5 (which, through many Yum updates) now appears to be CentOD 4.8. 4.8 is still rather old, but I havbe lots of stuff (files and stuff installed). I would like to install

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade

2010-06-18 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:26 PM, tony.chamberl...@lemko.com wrote: I am currently running CentOS 4.5 (which, through many Yum updates) now appears to be CentOD 4.8. 4.8 is still rather old, but I havbe lots of stuff (files and stuff installed). I would like to install Fedora but I am

Re: [CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-18 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I am a pretty hardcore ZenOSS user.. We use it to monitor over 1000 devices in different fashions - using a combination of SNMP (Linux), WMI (windows) and SSH (Unix/Aix). While there is a slight learning curve to get everything working the way you want - it is, in my opinion, the most powerful

Re: [CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-18 Thread Joseph L. Casale
It depends on what you are doing, but if it is mostly snmp data collection and icmp/tcp application monitoring, OpenNMS will probably do it out of the box with autodiscovery and no client setup. If you have lots of custom nagios client code, you'll probably have to twiddle some ugly XML

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade

2010-06-18 Thread m . roth
tony.chamberl...@lemko.com wrote: I am currently running CentOS 4.5 (which, through many Yum updates) now appears to be CentOD 4.8. 4.8 is still rather old, but I havbe lots of stuff (files and stuff installed). I would like to install Fedora but I am worried about losing all the stuff I

Re: [CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/18/2010 12:06 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: It depends on what you are doing, but if it is mostly snmp data collection and icmp/tcp application monitoring, OpenNMS will probably do it out of the box with autodiscovery and no client setup. If you have lots of custom nagios client code,

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-18 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 08:14:02AM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: Why yes, John, it is. The fine man said outright he didn't believe my honest account, accusing me of making something up when I was only giving the facts. He was calling me a liar. He preferred to see my account as a lie so as

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-18 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 08:25:56AM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: To get 3.1.7? Disregarding that, I should jump through the hoops of recompiling a F13 RPM rather than just compile from the tar? Why? Every extra stage like that introduces the chance of incidental errors, of stuff that doesn't

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade

2010-06-18 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 02:29:32PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: And as others have said, /home, and maybe /opt, should *always* be other drives, or at least other partitions Kind of makes you wonder why RH's default install is to shove everything but boot into one partition these days,

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade

2010-06-18 Thread m . roth
Whit Blauvelt wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 02:29:32PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: And as others have said, /home, and maybe /opt, should *always* be other drives, or at least other partitions Kind of makes you wonder why RH's default install is to shove everything but boot into one

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-18 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 08:41:26AM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: Now you're threatening to expel me from the community? For posting notes on workarounds to get a useful package to work? What's this about? Ganglia's working fine for me. I'm honored that you think I have that much sway

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-18 Thread John R Pierce
John R. Dennison wrote: On the whole, this list is professional. I like that. But look, ./configure, make, make install is _always_ a proper option. Any serious No, it's not. indeed, doing exactly this could very well lead to the conflicts he reported when he tried to

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-18 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:01:38AM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) is a volunteer-based community effort from the Fedora project to create a repository of high-quality add-on ... Enough said. Apparently not as that bears no indication of it

Re: [CentOS] free ftp server

2010-06-18 Thread John R Pierce
MOKRANI Rachid wrote: Any idea about a software we can use in our local server ? I've used dokuwiki for this, where I've restricted the access to the wiki pages to registered users whom are in the appropriate user groups. the persons sending the files upload them as wiki attachments,

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-18 Thread m . roth
John R. Dennison wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 08:41:26AM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: snip My issues were your building from native source doing the standard three-step; it's wrong to do so in an rpm-managed distro. Up until now, I had to build the gspca driver separately,

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade

2010-06-18 Thread Rob Kampen
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Whit Blauvelt wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 02:29:32PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: And as others have said, /home, and maybe /opt, should *always* be other drives, or at least other partitions Kind of makes you

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-18 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 03:15:41PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Up until now, I had to build the gspca driver separately, every time I upgraded those servers with the cameras attached. I also *always* have to do something - mostly reinstall - when I upgrade the boxes, mostly older, with

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade

2010-06-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/18/2010 2:05 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Whit Blauvelt wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 02:29:32PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: And as others have said, /home, and maybe /opt, should *always* be other drives, or at least other partitions Kind of makes you wonder why RH's default

Re: [CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-18 Thread Johnny Tan
On 06/11/2010 02:17 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: Ok, so since there is some level of interest and a few people have offered to test, let me get something together and post some details Our AWS technical reps stopped by our office the other day. They said the primary issue with CentOS in terms of

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade

2010-06-18 Thread Ron Loftin
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 15:17 -0400, Rob Kampen wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Whit Blauvelt wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 02:29:32PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: And as others have said, /home, and maybe /opt, should *always* be other drives, or at least other

Re: [CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 18/06/2010 20:25, Johnny Tan wrote: But since we have a business relation with them already and are under NDA, we did tell them we were happy to develop the proper AKI/ARIs and give those to CentOS to vet. So they will send us the API to do so, shortly. Please dont communicate to them or

[CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-18 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote: Not being awkward here, but I'm not going to accept any such thing when it does not involve me directly and I am fairly certain that this would extend to all the other CentOS developers as well. heartily concur; I manage the NDAs to which I am even

Re: [CentOS] 5.5 gspca

2010-06-18 Thread Ned Slider
On 18/06/10 16:34, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Fine, I tried running rpmbuild -ba --target=x86_64 --without xen video4linux-kmod.spec Go back and read my last reply, or read the SPEC file again. If you don't want to build for xen then you must define kvariants on the rpmbuild command line for

[CentOS] the Postfix packages are way too old

2010-06-18 Thread Florin Andrei
If you deliver more than a few emails to the outside world, especially if a good portion of those go to Yahoo, you may want to read this message: http://marc.info/?l=postfix-usersm=127689518629249w=2 Actually, read the whole thread, it's interesting and the discussion still continues:

Re: [CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-18 Thread Johnny Tan
On 06/18/2010 04:55 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: Please dont communicate to them or anyone else that the CentOS project or people representing it will agree to be bound under any NDA that they didnt sign themselves. And certainly not when done by proxy. This was definitely not what we

Re: [CentOS] the Postfix packages are way too old

2010-06-18 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 02:28:36PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: Fun fact: Postfix-2.3.3 has been released in August 2006. Think about that. To be fair, RH/CentOS also ships with Sendmail-8.13.8, also from August 2006. What a golden month for mail daemons that was. The door's wide open for

Re: [CentOS] the Postfix packages are way too old

2010-06-18 Thread Florin Andrei
On 06/18/2010 03:02 PM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: To be fair, RH/CentOS also ships with Sendmail-8.13.8, also from August 2006. What a golden month for mail daemons that was. lol The door's wide open for someone with the energy to put together a server distro based on CentOS but with modern

Re: [CentOS] the Postfix packages are way too old

2010-06-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/18/2010 5:02 PM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: Fun fact: Postfix-2.3.3 has been released in August 2006. Think about that. To be fair, RH/CentOS also ships with Sendmail-8.13.8, also from August 2006. What a golden month for mail daemons that was. The door's wide open for someone with the

Re: [CentOS] the Postfix packages are way too old

2010-06-18 Thread John R Pierce
Whit Blauvelt wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 02:28:36PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: Fun fact: Postfix-2.3.3 has been released in August 2006. Think about that. To be fair, RH/CentOS also ships with Sendmail-8.13.8, also from August 2006. What a golden month for mail daemons that

Re: [CentOS] the Postfix packages are way too old

2010-06-18 Thread Florin Andrei
On 06/18/2010 03:19 PM, John R Pierce wrote: (reading the EL6 beta 1 release notes) EL6 will be based on 2.6.32, use EXT4 by default, have XFS support (in 64bit builds), Apache 2.2.14, gcc 4.4, samba 3.0, postgres 8.4, mysql 5.1 and Postfix 2.6.5. Not bad. I could live with that. -- Florin

Re: [CentOS] the Postfix packages are way too old

2010-06-18 Thread Stephen Harris
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 06:02:10PM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: The door's wide open for someone with the energy to put together a server distro based on CentOS but with modern versions of essential daemons. Yes, Or wait for RedHat^WCentOS 6, which can't be too far out... RHEL 2.1: Mar 2002

Re: [CentOS] the Postfix packages are way too old

2010-06-18 Thread John R Pierce
Stephen Harris wrote: RHEL 2.1: Mar 2002 (AS), May 2003 (ES) RHEL 3: Oct 2003 RHEL 4: Feb 2005 RHEL 5: Mar 2007 RHEL 6: ??? (previous Beta's have been 5-6 months...) Funky; in June 2006 RHEL claimed they would slow their release schedule to every 2 years (rather than 18 months). Oops!

Re: [CentOS] the Postfix packages are way too old

2010-06-18 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
Is anyone working on this? (No, not Fedora. That's not a server OS.) When i find some package old i just get the SRPM from Fedora and i try to compile it in CentOS (it's very fun!) although CentOS/RHEL packages seems to be old, RH folks back-port security / bugfix patches I use fedora in

Re: [CentOS] the Postfix packages are way too old

2010-06-18 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Florin Andrei wrote: On 06/18/2010 03:19 PM, John R Pierce wrote: (reading the EL6 beta 1 release notes) EL6 will be based on 2.6.32, use EXT4 by default, have XFS support (in 64bit builds), Apache 2.2.14, gcc 4.4, samba 3.0, postgres 8.4, mysql 5.1 and Postfix

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade

2010-06-18 Thread Robert Heller
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Re: [CentOS] Upgrade

2010-06-18 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:59:45 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 02:29:32PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: And as others have said, /home, and maybe /opt, should *always* be other drives, or at least other partitions Kind of makes you wonder

Re: [CentOS] the Postfix packages are way too old

2010-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 18/06/2010 22:28, Florin Andrei wrote: Fun fact: Postfix-2.3.3 has been released in August 2006. Think about that. While you are doing that - also think about this : Red Hat have a policy, and they stick with it. Its something that works well for them, the ISVs around the base and its

Re: [CentOS] the Postfix packages are way too old

2010-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 18/06/2010 23:19, John R Pierce wrote: isn't EL6 coming out soon ? beta 1 released in April, afait ETA on el6 is august'ish this year. but C4 and C5 are still maintained and in mass production *now*. If there is a clearcut problem definition as this postfix issue is, then creating (

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 19/06/2010 02:02, Karanbir Singh wrote: ganglia - I still think you don't think you what you are talking about. s/.*/ganglia - I still think you are confused about the issue./ I blame too much mongodb in one day for crazy language skilz :! ( or in my case, lack of ) - KB

Re: [CentOS] Yum problem on Centos 5.3 (64-bit)

2010-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 18/06/2010 12:04, John Kelly wrote: I'm having a yum problem updating a system on Centos 5.3, 64-bit ... i.e. 'yum update' returns No Packages Marked for Update. Problem appears to be related to connecting to the mirrors where the repositories are located but I could be wrong in that.

Re: [CentOS] Kernel independent OCFS2 packages for RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS

2010-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi Dag, On 18/06/2010 09:12, Dag Wieers wrote: I would like to announce a set of OCFS2 kABI-tracking kernel module packages for RHEL5, Scientific Linux 5 and CentOS-5 and kernels. Can you please stop spamming this list ? A one time announcement here was plenty. Perhaps setup an announcement

Re: [CentOS] cameras and CentOS

2010-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 17/06/2010 17:58, Dan Carl wrote: A capture card and zoneminder would be a more professional grade solution. While looking for something similar, but a bit lighter weight I came across http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome recently. Not nearly as feature rich as ZoneMinder, but

Re: [CentOS] Kernel independent OCFS2 packages for RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS

2010-06-18 Thread Dag Wieers
On Sat, 19 Jun 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 18/06/2010 09:12, Dag Wieers wrote: I would like to announce a set of OCFS2 kABI-tracking kernel module packages for RHEL5, Scientific Linux 5 and CentOS-5 and kernels. Can you please stop spamming this list ? A one time announcement here was

Re: [CentOS] Kernel independent OCFS2 packages for RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS

2010-06-18 Thread John R Pierce
Karanbir Singh wrote: Hi Dag, On 18/06/2010 09:12, Dag Wieers wrote: I would like to announce a set of OCFS2 kABI-tracking kernel module packages for RHEL5, Scientific Linux 5 and CentOS-5 and kernels. Can you please stop spamming this list ? A one time announcement here was

Re: [CentOS] Kernel independent OCFS2 packages for RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS

2010-06-18 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 02:26:16AM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: Can you please stop spamming this list ? A one time announcement here was plenty. Perhaps setup an announcement list for elrepo ? Unless I am missing posts this was a a one-time announcement; Dag posted a very

Re: [CentOS] Kernel independent OCFS2 packages for RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS

2010-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 19/06/2010 02:37, John R Pierce wrote: I don't see this as spamming at all. He's announcing the availability of various major packages specific to the EL community, The announcement a few days ago was for DRBD. Do you really want to see all repos announce every package they build on

Re: [CentOS] Kernel independent OCFS2 packages for RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS

2010-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 19/06/2010 02:49, John R. Dennison wrote: Unless I am missing posts this was a a one-time announcement; Dag posted a very similar one recently about DRBD. Personally, I'd like to continue to see these announcements here. I am sure elrepo are able to put up an announcement

Re: [CentOS] Kernel independent OCFS2 packages for RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS

2010-06-18 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 19/06/2010 02:32, Dag Wieers wrote: We are not sending every announcement to the CentOS list, that should be apparent from looking at the ELRepo lists (where actual announcements are being posted in more detail). But you are still making repeated announcements about packages here - I dont

Re: [CentOS] Disabling services in CentOS 5.5

2010-06-18 Thread Ryan Wagoner
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Ski Dawg cen...@skidawg.org wrote: Hello all, I have been doing some searching for information about disabling services within a CentOS 5.5 install. I have found a few different opinions, and wanted to ask for some feedback. First off, the system is running

Re: [CentOS] Kernel independent OCFS2 packages for RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS

2010-06-18 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 03:20:13AM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: But you are still making repeated announcements about packages here - I dont want to see every repo or development unit out there posting emails here for feedback about every component they built. Please keep things in