[CentOS] Samba guest no write access after update to samba -3.6.23-12.el6.x86_64

2014-11-06 Thread Mike Watson
I have an established server initially created with CentOS 6.5 and updated weekly. Last week there was a massive update that I believe upgraded my server to 6.6. I had a number of issues after the upgrade---like my firewall being turned on and blocking all inbound ports. (I have an external

Re: [CentOS] Samba guest no write access after update to samba -3.6.23-12.el6.x86_64

2014-11-06 Thread Mike Watson
-- Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee. -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 11/06/2014 12:08 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: Am 2014-11-06 19:05, schrieb Mike Watson: I have an established server initially created

Re: [CentOS] Samba guest no write access after update to samba -3.6.23-12.el6.x86_64

2014-11-06 Thread Mike Watson
On 11/06/2014 01:47 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 11/6/2014 1:05 PM, Mike Watson wrote: I have an established server initially created with CentOS 6.5 and updated weekly. Last week there was a massive update that I believe upgraded my server to 6.6. I had a number of issues after the upgrade

[CentOS] Upgrade from CentOS 6.x to 7

2014-09-09 Thread Mike Watson
Can I directly upgrade (update?) from my current 6.5 box to version 7? Or, must I wipe my drives and install from scratch? mw -- -- Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee. -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems 500GB

2013-05-28 Thread Mike Watson
How well does it run under cron? mw -- Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee. -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 05/28/2013 11:54 AM, Diego Sanchez wrote: Or, you can use http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/ (or

[CentOS] Backup of large filesystems 500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Mike Watson
I've a small system that I use to support a number of churches. I provide web and email for them. My current server is running CentOS 6.3 with paired 1TB drives in a RAID1 configuration. It works well. One filesystem is very large, 500GB, and contains numerous large files: SQL, docs, church

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems 500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Mike Watson
: On 27.05.2013 19:13, Mike Watson wrote: I've a small system that I use to support a number of churches. I provide web and email for them. My current server is running CentOS 6.3 with paired 1TB drives in a RAID1 configuration. It works well. One filesystem is very large, 500GB, and contains numerous

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems 500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Mike Watson
01:13 PM, Mike Watson wrote: Backup will be to an external (USB) removable HD. What file system is on that external HD? FAT32 has a 4GB limit for file size. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems 500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Mike Watson
, Mike Watson mi...@crucis.net wrote: I'll check again, maybe NTSF. It's a singlepartition 1TB HD so it can't be FAT32. FAT32 can go to 2TB (you just can't format one that size in windows), but has the 4GB file size limit. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [CentOS] Question: How to utilize multi-core CPUs

2012-12-24 Thread Mike Watson
Thank you. mw -- Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee. -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Question: How to utilize multi-core CPUs

2012-12-23 Thread Mike Watson
I've installed CentOS 6.3 on a quad-four box. The model only indicated dual core but CentOS is telling me there are four. This is the first multi-core Linux installation I've had. What is the best way to utilize the multi-core CPUs? I'd like to distribute the load but I'm unsure how to do that.

Re: [CentOS] Question: How to utilize multi-core CPUs

2012-12-23 Thread Mike Watson
, Frank Cox wrote: On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 17:22:52 -0600 Mike Watson wrote: The model only indicated dual core but CentOS is telling me there are four. Hyperthreading, where two physical cores are split into four virtual cores. ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] KDE login screen configuration problems

2012-12-07 Thread Mike Watson
Thank you. That worked. mw -- Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee. -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 12/06/2012 02:52 PM, Mike Watson wrote: Ahh. OK, I'll make the change and post the results. :-[ mw -- Lose

Re: [CentOS] KDE login screen configuration problems

2012-12-07 Thread Mike Watson
://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 12/07/2012 11:00 AM, Mike Watson wrote: Thank you. That worked. mw -- Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee. -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 12/06/2012 02:52

[CentOS] KDE login screen configuration problems

2012-12-06 Thread Mike Watson
Sorry to be so slow in responding. I've done what you suggested. I created /etc/sysconfig/desktop and entered $DISPLAYMANAGER=KDM. I rebooted but there was no change. GDM is still being used. Any other suggestions? mw Just create the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop and

Re: [CentOS] KDE login screen configuration problems

2012-12-06 Thread Mike Watson
]; then preferred=/usr/bin/kdm Which will be used in starting kdm :) On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Mike Watson wrote: Sorry to be so slow in responding. I've done what you suggested. I created /etc/sysconfig/desktop and entered $DISPLAYMANAGER=KDM. I rebooted but there was no change. GDM is still being

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 - KDE login screen configuration problems

2012-12-01 Thread Mike Watson
The last reply to this subject said to modify /etc/sysconfig/desktop to change GDM to KDM. This would then enable the KDE login screen instead of the default Gnome. However, when I checked my CentOS 6.3 system, there was no such file, no /etc/sysconfig/desktop. I've not been able to find any

Re: [CentOS] X/Display resolution configuration

2012-10-09 Thread Mike Watson
I'll try that and let you know. mw -- Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee. -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 10/08/2012 05:15 PM, Frank Cox wrote: On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:51:17 -0500 Mike Watson wrote: Login

Re: [CentOS] X/Display resolution configuration

2012-10-09 Thread Mike Watson
According to xorg.0.log, it's seeing the EDID fine. All the info was there. mw -- Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee. -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 10/09/2012 04:25 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original

Re: [CentOS] Dovecot pam issues (Resolved)

2012-10-08 Thread Mike Watson
It's resolved. There's been many changes from Fedora 7 to RHEL 6/CentOS 6.3. One was a system authentication app. Dovecot was configured correctly, but the app was set to kerebos (sp?). Once I made the app match plaintext all worked. I set up the Fedora web/mail server some years ago. It's

[CentOS] X/Display resolution configuration

2012-10-08 Thread Mike Watson
I've installed CentOS 6.3 on a new system. I've a nagging problem that I'm trying to fix---the screen resolution changes. I've a flat screen monitor that has 1600x900 capability. However when I logout and then log back in the resolution changes to 1280x1024. When I looked at the xorg.conf.d

Re: [CentOS] X/Display resolution configuration

2012-10-08 Thread Mike Watson
is an empty directory. mw -- Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee. -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 10/08/2012 12:38 PM, Nux! wrote: On 08.10.2012 18:20, Mike Watson wrote: I've installed CentOS 6.3 on a new system. I've

Re: [CentOS] X/Display resolution configuration

2012-10-08 Thread Mike Watson
wrote: To: centos@centos.org From: Frank Coxthea...@melvilletheatre.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] X/Display resolution configuration On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:52:18 -0500 Mike Watson wrote: My previous box, Fedora 7 used Xorg but I can't find the Xorg.conf file for 6.3. All I've found so far

Re: [CentOS] X/Display resolution configuration

2012-10-08 Thread Mike Watson
. -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 10/08/2012 01:21 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Monday, 8. October 2012. 12.52.18 Mike Watson wrote: On 10/08/2012 12:38 PM, Nux! wrote: On 08.10.2012 18:20, Mike Watson wrote: I've installed CentOS 6.3 on a new

Re: [CentOS] X/Display resolution configuration

2012-10-08 Thread Mike Watson
http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 10/08/2012 01:21 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Monday, 8. October 2012. 12.52.18 Mike Watson wrote: On 10/08/2012 12:38 PM, Nux! wrote: On 08.10.2012 18:20, Mike Watson wrote: I've installed CentOS 6.3 on a new system. I've a nagging

Re: [CentOS] X/Display resolution configuration

2012-10-08 Thread Mike Watson
retained---only for the duration of that session. mw -- Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee. -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 10/08/2012 04:19 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Monday, 8. October 2012. 15.54.19 Mike

[CentOS] Dovecot pam issues

2012-10-05 Thread Mike Watson
I'm replacing my old Fedora 7 mail server with a new one running CentOS6.3. The old server uses plain-text logins and password for pop3 and IMAP. I'm unable to get dovecot to authenticate. It's failing the password check. Trying 192.168.1.50... Connected to orion (192.168.1.50). Escape