Re: [CentOS] establish a 128 bit encrypted tunnel between centos 5.2 boxes

, but they are more complex. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] slow Perl on CentOS 5

/show_bug.cgi?id=379791 -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Is there a way to save the routing table permanently?

bugzilla before it gets implemented. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Is there a way to save the routing table permanently?

Les Mikesell wrote: Florin Andrei wrote: It would be very nice if the init.d script would allow the sysadmin to do something like service network saveroutes. I always thought that would be a neat feature. Routes only work when you can reach the next hop. That is, if you try to add

Re: [CentOS] Disk quotas for Sendmail

And Cyrus already has quota limits at the application level. Also has built-in filtering with Sieve. Faster, more powerful, more scalable than procmail friends. It's just a suggestion, I'm not saying this is the ideal solution for every scenario. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] Re: gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?)

not negate the basic fact that it's one of the most un-intuitive and essentially broken user interface designs ever. But we're stuck with it, which is unfortunate. Note: I'm not an Emacs fan. :-) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Re: gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?)

Frank Cox wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:48:10 -0700 Florin Andrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's an awful editor. I wish I could hire the person who came up with the user interface, only to have the satisfaction of having him/her fired five minutes later. With no severance package. Viewed

Re: [CentOS] Re: gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?)

evolved is a great illustration for why vi still survives today. If it was a rational decision, it would have died circa 1999. Alright, time for me to disappear from this thread. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?)

mcedit yum install mc and you can start using it. Can't get more intuitive than that. I use it for PHP and C programming, and shell scripting. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] I'm Stuck

Please don't reply to an existing discussion thread and change the subject. Create a new message if you start a new topic. Thanks. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

Akemi Yagi wrote: I almost forgot to tell you that firewire support is disabled in the distro kernel. This is upstream's decision. wow :-( Why did they do that? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

. If it does, you know you have to either: - increase the buffer even more - stop messing around with the system - should the previous fail, then get a dedicated drive -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

situation on Linux. Windows is much better. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ #!/bin/bash # v20080221 # Florin Andrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then echo Usage: $0 dirname exit fi # Testing pre-requisites for exe in wine unix2dos mplex dvdauthor; do if [ -z `which ${exe

Re: [CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

I need to transfer video over FireWire, and it all needs to function without headaches. It may start working with a different kernel and/or a different libraw1394. But honestly, I have no real clue. Sorry. :-/ -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] xfs on 5.2 (live cd + dvd)

authoring and stuff like that. Even then, if you want to be sure, it's probably best to do some benchmarks. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

one of the other methods already recommended in this thread. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

Bowie Bailey wrote: I know it's security through obscurity That's not necessarily a bad thing. It is bad if it's the _only_ protection. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

[CentOS] Adaptec RAID 3805 / 5805

Anybody using these? Pros? Cons? Drivers for CentOS 5? Config / management utility? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Drive activity every 30sec

Craig White wrote: don't use a journalled filesystem (ext3) That's pretty extreme, it may not actually solve the original problem, and in case of a crash you may have fun with repairing inconsistent filesystems. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] Drive activity every 30sec

, I don't know. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Re: pm-utils - ATrpms updates a system package on the stable branch

. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Re: pm-utils - ATrpms updates a system package on the stable branch

them? To become package maintainers - those lacking common sense need not apply. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Drive activity every 30sec

systems unless you _really_ need to do disk forensics. You will see a performance improvement in almost every scenario. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 3ware performance in CentOS

like to hear from someone with first-hand experience with one of them. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] preferred software RAID 10?

John R Pierce wrote: /boot shouldn't be mirrored, as the BIOS won't know how to boot it. Wait. I thought mirror RAID is the same on-disk format like a plain partition, so therefore a mirrored /boot will always boot. At least, it always did for me. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] To upgrade or not

always install any FF version you want in /home/${USER}/firefox and put that directory at the beginning of $PATH in .bash_profile Voila, instant FF upgrade and you don't even have to remove the original FF package. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] Re: Re: Re: CentOS 5.2 is here!

that yet, I need to be physically there to babysit it, there are way too many hacks and moving parts on that machine. But yeah, in a nutshell, just do yum update and it will take you to the next version - 5.2 -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] Re: Re: Re: Re: CentOS 5.2 is here!

. (*) - not an exact comparison, YMMV, if this knowledge burns down your house and kills your dog, I am not responsible. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

by 3ware. I'm testing now the 16 port version for newer servers, no problems there either (but not much usage yet, of course). -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [CentOS] 3ware performance in CentOS

Florin Andrei wrote: Anyway, I did a test with the 2.6.18-93.el5.bz444759 kernel and there's no difference: 65 minutes, 27 MB/s. Looks like it doesn't matter which kernel I use, at least for this simple test with dd. I wonder if a test closer to real life, such as reading/writing stuff

Re: [CentOS] 3ware performance in CentOS

the stuff that needs good performance, but can be rebuilt from the master data in case something ugly happens. Like pretty much anything in life, it's a trade-off. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] What will the upgrade to 5.2 be like?

Weave comes out with a version that's similar enough with Google Sync in terms of features. Hopefully that will happen pretty soon. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

[CentOS] 3ware performance in CentOS

61min 28M/s -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 3ware performance in CentOS

out. ;-) I'd be interested in a way of telling from within the OS whether or not MWI is enabled... That would be nice. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] yum upgrade 4.3 - current ?

even if I try to just update a specific package. Google got me this link, but no obvious resolution: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?forum=8topic_id=5588viewmode=flat Any pointers appreciated. Backup, format, install, restore. ;-) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

[CentOS] CentOS 5.2 ?

Anybody knows when CentOS 5.2 will be made available? http://www.linux.com/feature/135980 -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 ?

Matt Hyclak wrote: For crying out loud, upstream has only released 5.2 less than 24 hours ago. I was just curious, I was not demanding it right now or anything like that. Sorry if my inquiry seemed inconsiderate. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

for the kind of scenario you're describing. No wonder it performs really well in that sort of situation. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

Jim Perrin wrote: Personal experiences may vary. Yup. Do your own tests, involving your particular situation, then draw conclusions. The average may just not apply very well in your case. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

Ross S. W. Walker wrote: jfs is supposedly excellent if you have a lot of small files like a mail/news server Hm, last time I tested ReiseFS turned out to be the best FS for that situation. But it's been a while, perhaps things have changed a bit. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] wine question

it harder to keep up with the updates): http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/ Wine is making a lot of progress recently, so it's probably worth tracking the recent versions. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Watching Netflix movies on CentOS

Rogelio wrote: Has anyone here been able to view Netflix movies on CentOS? (It requires Internet Explorer, and I'm wondering what the workaround is for Firefox) I wonder if IE + Win Media Player under (a recent version of) Wine would be able to play the Netflix on demand movies. -- Florin

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

delete is very fast). No other filesystem will be as reliable as Ext3 if the machine suddenly loses power, but if you have a battery backup or something like that, you should be fine with non-Ext3 filesystems. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet.

. And then you can do 1:1 NAT with the ip utility. Because NAT is not activated in netfilter, ip_conntrack is not required. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] No Network = slow ??

explain this better in a short paragraph, but I'm sure there's plenty of people who've been there and arrived to the same conclusion: Anything remote is unreliable, so don't depend on it for local settings. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

[CentOS] the official lightweight desktop environment for CentOS?

with mythfrontend, I don't need any compatibility issues. It must be a stable, reputable software. Which desktop environment would you recommend based on the requirements? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

differences between the kernel versions to rely entirely on make oldconfig. Bottom line - it works, but it's not 100% automatic. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS plus mysql server

can build the latest mysql-5.0 version for centos-5 and put it into centosplus if there is a real need out there for it. I, for one, would definitely use the latest stable mysql-5.0 on centos 5 x86_64. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] problem with firefox

to .mozilla.orig (to preserve bookmarks and such in case something goes wrong. Add /home/user/firefox to the front end of the $PATH. That's it. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] problem with firefox

don't have much experience with it. Bottom line: upgrade Firefox. Maybe this should be put in the FAQ. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] yum-security not working?

metadata in from local files Excluding Packages in global exclude list Finished Limiting package lists to security relevant ones No packages needed, for security, 128 available # -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

[CentOS] CentOS 5 partial update

if this might cause any problems. Of course I could do some tests myself, but I'm asking here for real-life feedback, in case someone else did the same thing. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] Probably OT: Has anyone else seen SeaMonkey 'pop' without warning?

. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] max mount count incovenient

months. Since I upgrade the OS more often than once a year anyway, I chose to disable auto fsck completely on that kind of machines. No problems so far, but I wouldn't risk waiting more than 1 year. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Can't connect to torrent tracker

? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 5.0-- 5.1 lm_sensors General Parse Error

with a clean fresh install of CentOS 5.1, kernel 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 Installing the lm_sensors-2.10.5-52.el5.x86_64.rpm package from ATrpms fixed the problem. Looks like it's a bug in 5.1, either in the kernel or in the lm_sensors packages. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] Re: are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

translation from Fedora to RHEL. I can definitely see why they would be reluctant to do that. OTOH, yes, it would be so nice if all repos would be 100% compatible with each other. :-) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Minimal install for CentOS 5?

a chkconfig --list | grep :on | less and look through the list - anything you don't want, just do a chkconfig service_name off in a different console. Fairly easy, fairly newbie-friendly, works OK. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS

[CentOS] are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

Following Fabian's blog post re: RPMForge being rebuilt for EL5, I've a question: Are there any compatibility problems between RPMForge and EPEL? In other words, if I enabled EPEL previously, will I be able to enable RPMForge as well without running into trouble? -- Florin Andrei http

Re: [CentOS] Re: [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-5.1 i386 and x86_64

issues. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Postfix dying

process still running for postfix. After killing this, I am able to run `service postfix start`. Anything in audit.log ? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: SOLVED: Re: [CentOS] Installing Google's Picasa for Linux on CentOS 5

name, unmount /opt, re-mount the FAT32 partition under the new directory, and then leave /opt alone. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] anyone using DBMail?

not sure yet, SQLite might be another option). -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] rolling your own kernel - guidelines?

Florin Andrei wrote: Optionally, do a make menuconfig and tweak the kernel options even more. You may especially want to edit the CONFIG_LOCALVERSION field to reflect the fact that you're building a custom kernel. I prefer to make that field COMPANYNAME.x where x is the build number - start

Re: [CentOS] rolling your own kernel - guidelines?

Florin Andrei wrote: Let's say I want to use a much newer kernel - even one from the future, such as the upcoming 2.6.24. :-) What would y'all smart folks do in this case, in order to avoid any possible nasty consequences? Would you import the config file from the original CentOS5 kernel

Re: [CentOS] rolling your own kernel - guidelines?

Florin Andrei wrote: Apply this patch to the scripts/package/mkspec file (careful, at least one line is wrapped by the Gmane mail archive, so unwrap manually): http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/593172 Or just use the patch file attached to this message if the mail archive doesn't

[CentOS] rolling your own kernel - guidelines?

, and let the kernel deal with the differences? I.e. have the old configuration as some sort of baseline that can be further tweaked. Or some other strategy? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] proxy arp on CentOS 5?

Florin Andrei wrote: Anybody implemented a working proxy ARP with CentOS 5? I am trying to implement DNAT on a dual-homed firewall (servers behind firewall are on private IPs) and that requires proxy ARP. I've tried several different methods but nothing seems to work. I figured it out. I

[CentOS] proxy arp on CentOS 5?

? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] latest Asterisk on CentOS 5 64 bit ?

for CentOS 5 but so far no luck. The best site so far is this: http://djflux.net/rpms/fedora/6/ It's Fedora 6 so it may recompile on CentOS 5. Anyone else using recent Asterisk versions on CentOS 5 64 bit? Where did you get your packages from? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

[CentOS] custom SELinux?

that on CentOS 5. So, I need to tell SELinux hey, this stuff under /home/foobar/spool/cyrus is just like /var/spool/cyrus, don't relabel it to something else. How do I achieve that? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

[CentOS] SSL accelerators anyone?

to stay away from, etc. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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