Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-04 Thread Brian Mathis
mething like "Working on xyz package but ran into this problem. Still have to look at packages abc and def" would more than satisfy a vast majority of people complaining here. It's mind boggling that the project just doesn't seem to understand that. // Brian Mathis ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Brian Mathis > wrote: >> Appreciate your efforts, but let's make one thing clear: >> >> The SINGLE source of ALL the current community issues (or "whining" as >>

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-04 Thread Brian Mathis
true. Not one post has "demanded" anything. Everyone is here because they care about the project. That's what is constantly missing in the replies by those who continue to browbeat and deride anyone simply looking for information. It's a symptom of a deeper pro

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Brian Mathis > wrote: > >> Rudi, >> >> Cut the crap.  You're intentionally changing the context of the >> discussion, so please stop posting.  No one has "demanded"

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-05 Thread Brian Mathis
s" in /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf, then you have installed something else that is performing the updates automatically. Are you sure the updates are actually getting installed, and it's not just noise in the log from yum-updatesd? // Brian Mathis P.S. The yum log doesn't have th

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-05 Thread Brian Mathis
were  installed >> last  year. > > Hmm, is there a known fix for this? Rotate the log file yourself once a year. You can check if you are seeing this bug by looking at the /var/log/yum.log last modified time. If it was yesterday, then I suppose the packages were installed. As far as your other questions, how does it determine what packages to update, I think you will find it's not actually doing any updating. I have not used yum-updatesd to auto-update packages myself, but I would think it would automatically install any updated package. // Brian Mathis ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Brian Mathis
he obvious. When there's nothing new the project should be focusing on improving things to become stronger to withstand the storm of the next release cycle. It only becomes obvious that has not been done at times like this when the storm has arrived. // Brian Mathis __

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: >> On 7.4.2011 16:58, Les Mikesell wrote: >> >>> While SL and other distributions are perfectly fine for almost all >>> uses, there's a certain irony in the fact the

Re: [CentOS] how is "binary compatibility" determined?

2011-04-08 Thread Brian Mathis
ent from Karanbir Singh: "Just want to point out that CentOS does not use anything from that page - and details / scripts on that page have nothing to do with the CentOS process." // Brian Mathis ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-11 Thread Brian Mathis
I know you release when ready, so how can I help it be ready faster? It really is an achievement to have alienated such a luminary as Dag, especially when KB specifically mentions that the project only wants to deal with such luminaries in the FLOSS interview. // Brian Mathis _

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-12 Thread Brian Mathis
e "long tail" of people who might have time to contribute 1 or 2 things, but not become a complete owner of a subsystem. With many people contributing like this, the main project committers would vet and incorporate changes, maintaining the level of trust while reducing their workload. Eve

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-12 Thread Brian Mathis
e tone of the messages it seems like it was either via IRC or personal email, which effectively counts for zero in this context as we are talking about things that take place in public. Those things need to go into the wiki, with updated pages. Not on blog posts, twitter, or email archives. // Brian Mathis ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-12 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 6:39 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Brian Mathis wrote: > >> packages, etc... but how?  From the tone of the messages it seems like >> it was either via IRC or personal email, which effectively counts for >> zero in this context

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-20 Thread Brian Mathis
only assume that the real reason behind keeping the dev process closed is to maintain the egos of those on the inside -- since all avenues of logic seem to have been exhausted. // Brian Mathis [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/centos@centos.org/msg69365.html ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ssh in while in fsck

2011-04-27 Thread Brian Mathis
> >        mark I think having a decent remote console is the solution to that. DRAC, KVMoIP, Serial console, etc... I'm not sure how it could be considered safe to start services like sshd before the filesystem has been checked. // Brian Mathis _

Re: [CentOS] ssh in while in fsck

2011-04-27 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:28 PM, wrote: > Brian Mathis wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:14 PM,   wrote: >>> My manager reminds me that "in the old Sun days", the ssh server came up >>> first, *before* the fsck on boot, so that if there was a problem, a

Re: [CentOS] Accounting package recommendations

2020-06-09 Thread Brian Reichert
_ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Brian Reichert BSD admin/developer at large ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ntpdate past CentOS 7

2020-12-02 Thread Brian Reichert
t; Thanks, > > Jerry > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Brian Reichert BSD admin/developer at large ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cent

Re: [CentOS] ntpdate past CentOS 7

2020-12-04 Thread Brian Reichert
On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 07:06:25AM +, J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote: > On 02/12/2020 23:32, Brian Reichert wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 02:17:04PM -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: > >>So ntpdate is no longer present past CentOS 7. > > > >What's wrong w

Re: [CentOS] It's been six days since CVD-2021-33909 was patched in RHEL, what's the holdup for Stream 8?

2021-07-28 Thread Brian Stinson
ut new workflows in CentOS Stream 9, we will be able to provide more direct feedback on patch status at a source code level. Just as a reminder you can view and participate in development happening on Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/ <https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/

Re: [CentOS] Kernel live patching on CentOS Stream 9

2022-01-07 Thread Brian Stinson
uirements on this sort of workflow. - RHEL 9 is not yet released, my understanding is that patch files for RHEL proper will begin showing up after GA --Brian ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Ping as regular user not allowed (CentOS Stream 8)

2022-01-19 Thread Brian Stinson
illa: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2037807 We're waiting for systemd-239-55.el8 sources to show up after which we will build this and publish to CentOS Stream. Right now this appears to be an infrastructure issue and the appropriate folks are working on that,

Re: [CentOS] Ping as regular user not allowed (CentOS Stream 8)

2022-01-20 Thread Brian Stinson
ping utility. --Brian On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 3:57 PM Robby Callicotte via CentOS wrote: > > On Thursday, January 20, 2022 3:52:35 PM CST Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > > The change was intentional. So, this will stay ...? > > > > https://git.c

Re: [CentOS] wget http://mirror.stream.centos.org/9-stream/BaseOS/x86_64/os/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz --max-redirect=0 --no-hsts

2023-03-30 Thread Brian Stinson
___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Mirrors served by the mirror.stream.centos.org alias will remain accessible only via https. You can find a mirror close to you that supports http on this page: https

Re: [CentOS] Asterisk and VOIP was Re: CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-30 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > > I have a dedicated * CentOS box that shows today as uptime 543 days. I built > from scratch as I needed to support a four port analog trunk card. > This does not have internet access as I'm running it like an old fashioned > PABX - > just with

Re: [CentOS] Asterisk and VOIP was Re: CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-30 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: > >> Uptime is a red herring and is generally meaningless.  You'd be better >> off performing updates and reboots at least once a month, so you don't >> n

Re: [CentOS] Asterisk and VOIP was Re: CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-30 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:23 PM, wrote: > -Original Message- > From:  Brian Mathis > > The difference is that CentOS is a general-purpose OS that can be used > for many things, and has a much bigger installed base.  That makes it > more of a target and would lik

Re: [CentOS] OT: What's wrong with RAID5

2009-09-30 Thread Brian McKerr
Slightly OT... Opensolaris has just had triple parity raid (raidz3) added to ZFS; http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/triple_parity_raid_z Pity we can't get an in kernel version of ZFS for linux. On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:52:08PM -

[CentOS] ignore please.

2009-09-30 Thread Brian McKerr
testing email delivery ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] DNS Serving - Why my own?

2009-10-05 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:17 PM, ML wrote: > HI All, > > Can anyone explain why I might want to run my own DNS Server in-house? > I have a comcast business circuit and use their DNS servers and when I > need entries, I use GoDaddy where I buy my domains. > > Best, > -ML If you want to do more com

Re: [CentOS] Huge!

2009-10-06 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:01 PM, ML wrote: > Hi All, > > I was trouble shooting why an rsync was taking over a day. > > I found the problem to be in in a directory in /home that has CVS > backups in it. > > I browsed to find out that there are 7 .tar.gz archives that are each > about > > 1,199,943,

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Alan McKay wrote: >> Since you stated that your system is only having trouble at writes, >> doing batch inserts, I would look at how you are doing these batch >> inserts and see if you can optimize this by using techniques to delay >> key writes or adjust locking me

Re: [CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

2009-10-10 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Shawn Everett wrote: > Thanks to everyone for their comments so far. > > The "server" in question is a basic 2 node cluster connected to an MSA500. > > It runs a variety of applications including Oracle, Apache, Samba, and a > proprietary app built by another vendor

Re: [CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

2009-10-10 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote: > > On Oct 10, 2009, at 3:08 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > >>> The better solution would be to make sure you are prepared for when >>> the hardware does fail.  Inform the client that you understand that >>> they don't want to upgrade the server

Re: [CentOS] trying to understand OSS, GPL, BSD & other licensing model for software distribution.

2009-10-12 Thread Brian Mathis
You asked this question not even a week ago. It's off-topic, and not one that you should be relying on people on a mailing list to answer. Only you know your requirements and only your lawyer knows what's best for them. Also, there are many sites that go into detail about OSS licenses. Going to a

Re: [CentOS] trying to understand OSS, GPL, BSD & other licensing model for software distribution.

2009-10-12 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: >> You asked this question not even a week ago.  It's off-topic, and not >> one that you should be relying on people on a mailing list to answer. >> Only you

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-14 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:38 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: > On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Carlos Santana wrote: > >> Howdy, >> >> I am having time-drift issues on my CentOS VM. I had referred to >> following documentation: > > The issue I had with time drift was due to running NTP inside the VM. > Don't do

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring a remote server with Conky ?

2009-10-19 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using Conky for some time, a nifty utility to monitor just > about anything on the PC. Vital things like CPU, RAM, swap, disks, > current song playing in MPD :o) > > Here's what it looks like : > > http://www.microlinux.fr/ima

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Brian Kirkman
ooking on the CentOS 5.4 wiki, which is still flagged as DRAFT, and it gives a few steps to go through for an upgrade. Check it out here. http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.4/#head-29511ff6659f6463d444feb92326ed2232fc8c08 -Brian ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] prioritizing repos

2009-10-23 Thread Brian Kirkman
Might I suggest the rpmforge repo instead? Check out the following. http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge#head-20e1f65f19ccf2f5fbf5adb30dbaf5ea963a64ae Others might disagree, but I've had good luck with rpmforge. -Brian ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] kvm package difference - v36 via yum, v83 via DVD

2009-10-24 Thread Brian Schueler
on' on DVD install that installs kvm-83. It's also a difference between installing from network and DVD, even when the same Kickstart file is used when kvm is selected. What is the reason of the base-repo/media difference? cheers, Brian. ___

Re: [CentOS] VMware Server 2.0.1 On CentOS 5

2009-10-29 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:29 AM, wrote: > It's my understanding that CentOS is a carbon copy of Red Hat - with the > exception of the art work. Assuming that this is true, the support matrix > for VMware Server 2.0.1 states Red Hat 5.1.  I cannot seem to locate a > CentOS 5.1 x86-64 copy.  I can

Re: [CentOS] Who's eating our bandwidth?

2009-11-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently setup a new server for our public libraries. For the last > two years, this has been my first "big" job, since it involves > networking eleven small to medium size public libraries. > > There was a hiccup some time ago when

[CentOS] bind segfault in conjunction with dbus - what to change?

2009-11-04 Thread Brian Schueler
) is switched off. Following versions are installed: bind-9.3.6-4.P1.el5 bind-libs-9.3.6-4.P1.el5 dbus-1.1.2-12.el5 Thanks, Brian. starting the bind causes following error: [r...@t41 ~]# /usr/sbin/named -u named -D -t /var/named/chroot -g 04-Nov-2009 16:58:14.905 starting BIND 9.3.6-P1

Re: [CentOS] user management solution needed

2009-11-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 15:25 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Craig White wrote: >> > At that point, using OpenLDAP or CentOS-DS or Fedora-DS is more or less >> > a matter of implementation details and utility. None of them are better >> > than the

Re: [CentOS] user management solution needed

2009-11-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 17:01 -0500, Brian Mathis wrote: >> In my extremely limited experience with LDAP, it seem that the problem >> is not "LDAP" itself, but how to structure it.  Most howtos walk you >> throu

Re: [CentOS] user management solution needed

2009-11-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: [...] > The problem with relying on documentation, even great documentation, > is that it puts the responsibility on the admin to follow. Now we all > know of the bad admins that can't follow directions, but in my > experience, the culprit is often

Re: [CentOS] system time automatically fowards in time and then comes back to normal

2009-11-21 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:19 AM, ankush grover wrote: > Hi friends, > > I am running Nagios 2.7-1 on Centos 5.0 32-bit hosted on Vmware ESX > 4.0. The issue I am seeing on the server is sometimes nagios is > showing the below messages in /var/log/messages and as the system time > gets changed som

Re: [CentOS] AIDE or OSSEC on CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-11-28 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 6:57 PM, David McGuffey wrote: > Starting with a fresh load and after I finish hardening the load > following the Center for Internet Security (CIS) guidance, I'm wondering > whether AIDE or OSSEC would be a better intrusion detection system. > > I installed AIDE and did a

Re: [CentOS] AIDE or OSSEC on CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-11-29 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: > David McGuffey wrote: >> >> Starting with a fresh load and after I finish hardening the load >> following the Center for Internet Security (CIS) guidance, I'm wondering >> whether AIDE or OSSEC would be a better intrusion detection system. >> >>

Re: [CentOS] AIDE or OSSEC on CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-11-29 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:52 PM, David McGuffey wrote: > On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 20:31 +, John Horne wrote: >> On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 18:57 -0500, David McGuffey wrote: >> > Starting with a fresh load and after I finish hardening the load >> > following the Center for Internet Security (CIS) guid

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VM - ntpd running

2009-11-30 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Jonathan Garden wrote: > This is really stupid question. But referring to: > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/083791.html > I don't see any line related to ntpd in my /var/log/messages . Do I need to > turn-on ntpd for timekeeping on VMs? Some

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VM - ntpd running

2009-11-30 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Thomas Harold wrote: > On 11/30/2009 11:34 AM, Jonathan Garden wrote: >> This is really stupid question. But referring to: >> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/083791.html >> I don't see any line related to ntpd in my /var/log/messages . Do I n

Re: [CentOS] Startup script issues

2009-12-01 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Robert Bielik wrote: > I'm converting Ubuntu startup scripts to work on CentOS (5.3), and I'm having > trouble finding out how > to start a daemon in a certain directory? For Ubuntu, start-stop-daemon has > the option -d to set the > working directory. > > TIA > /

Re: [CentOS] Startup script issues

2009-12-01 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Robert Bielik wrote: > Brian Mathis skrev: >> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Robert Bielik >> wrote: >>> I'm converting Ubuntu startup scripts to work on CentOS (5.3), and I'm >>> having trouble finding out how >&g

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:How to compare two files but not in line-by-line basis?

2009-12-02 Thread Brian McKerr
diff -y ? On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Simon Banton wrote: > At 08:54 + 2/12/09, hadi motamedi wrote: > >Dear All > >Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I compare two > >files but not in line-by-line basis on my CentOS server ? I mean say > >row#1 in file1 has the same data

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-05 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Miguel Medalha wrote: > I am about to install a new server running CentOS 5.4. The server will > contain pretty critical data that we can't afford to corrupt. > > I would like to benefit from the extra speed and features of a ext4 > filesystem but I don't have any

Re: [CentOS] how to find last updates for Centos 5.3?

2009-12-07 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 6:12 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > Lars Hecking wrote: >>> Any ideas about how to go back in time and get the last 5.3 update batch?? >>> >> >>  Grab a copy of centos/5.3/updates along with centos/5.3/os from your >>  nearest CentOS mirror and set up your own local repository.

Re: [CentOS] how to find last updates for Centos 5.3?

2009-12-07 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 6:03 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Alan McKay wrote: > >>> I wish I had access to a Centos update folder AS IT EXISTED before >>> Centos 5.4 was released.  The last update set that applied to 5.3,in >>> other words. >> >> Crap, I just removed one with no backu

Re: [CentOS] how to find last updates for Centos 5.3?

2009-12-09 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 07/12/09 23:19, Brian Mathis wrote: >> Not true, and it's the thing that's most irritating about this policy. >>   The RPMs are still there, just not the sqlite repodata files that yum >> needs.  So if you g

Re: [CentOS] Firewall for virtual machines

2009-12-11 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 4:50 PM, MHR wrote: > I realize I'm not getting a lot of questions answered here lately, and > I'm going to presume that this is for legitimate reasons (i.e., people > don't know or are too busy to think about it), not because they seem > stupid (if they do, please tell me,

Re: [CentOS] Cron job? or something else? help..

2009-12-14 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:46 AM, Roland Roland wrote: > Hello, > > i have a certain issue at hand that i'm trying to solve. > > there's a certain command that i need to execute 10 minutes after boot. > how can i set that? im not very expert with cron jobs but can it be done > that way? i know that

Re: [CentOS] Red Hat commercial support for CentOS/Fedora

2009-12-16 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Connie Sieh wrote: > On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Ron Blizzard wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Rogelio wrote: >>> Someone told me that if you have a CentOS or Fedora server, you can pay a >>> Red Hat yearly fee and get them to support it (because the environmen

Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail question

2009-12-18 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Davy Leon wrote: > Hi folks > > This question is about fetchmail running on my Centos 5.3 box. > I need to fetch my email from different accounts living on remote servers > and drop it on my local mailbox. > The question is wich way is faster for fetchmail... usin

Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail question

2009-12-18 Thread Brian Mathis
[Top post moved to bottom] On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Davy Leon wrote: >> - Original Message - >> From: "Brian Mathis" >> To: "CentOS mailing list" >> Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:27 AM >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail

Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail question

2009-12-18 Thread Brian Kirkman
27;ve set it up, so I don't remember too many details. Perhaps check it out if you feel you need an alternative to fetchmail, and if you need any help, I can go back and see how it's set up. -Brian ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail question

2009-12-18 Thread Brian Mathis
[Top post again moved to the bottom] On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Scot P. Floess wrote: > On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Brian Mathis wrote: >> [Top post moved to bottom] >> >> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Davy Leon >> wrote: >>>> >>>> --

Re: [CentOS] [OT] CAT5 IP-capable rackmount KVM units?

2009-12-31 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Thomas Harold wrote: > Rather off-topic, but I'm looking for IP-based KVMs (~16 ports) that can > handle both PS/2 and USB hookups on the server side.  All of the answers > over at Slashdot are a few years out of date and it looks like prices on > KVM head units h

Re: [CentOS] [OT] CAT5 IP-capable rackmount KVM units?

2009-12-31 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 3:11 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > Thomas Harold wrote: >> Rather off-topic, but I'm looking for IP-based KVMs (~16 ports) that can >> handle both PS/2 and USB hookups on the server side.  All of the answers >> over at Slashdot are a few years out of date and it looks like pri

Re: [CentOS] Dear Centos Mailing List, If you can't find in google, try JUSTDIAL.COM

2010-01-06 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Ralph Angenendt wrote on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:45:19 +0100: > >> Hmmm. The latter is LinkedIn - I don't really want to block that :) > > yes, and they have been spamming this list already several times. It's > getting annoying over time. > >> I

Re: [CentOS] unattended fsck on reboot

2010-01-06 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:34 PM, nate wrote: > Alan McKay wrote: > >> I want to do a reboot of a couple of systems during our maintenance >> window and fsck them, but would rather try it from home first and not >> go to the data center.  Then of course rush there like a madman if >> they don't com

Re: [CentOS] unattended fsck on reboot

2010-01-06 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 1/6/2010 1:17 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:34 PM, nate   wrote: > No out of band management? >> My thoughts exactly.  All servers should have this these days, be it an integrated card or an IP-base

Re: [CentOS] Apache DocumentRoot

2010-01-06 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I just assumed that setting this in the httpd.conf to the expected > /var/www/html and making all my sites actual virtual hosts would > place any request made by ip in /var/www/html, but it goes to the > first vhost? > > How can I get the a

Re: [CentOS] Vmware server 2.0.2 and Centos 5.4

2010-01-12 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Tom Bishop wrote: >> I know of the issue using vmware server 2.0.2 and centos 5.4, but is their >> any reason not to use the .rpm install of  for centos?  I have always used >> the .tar file but this time used t

Re: [CentOS] Are SSD disks worth the cost for server usage?

2010-01-12 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > Hi, > > we want to upgrade our infrastructure and are considering renting two > different types of server by a provider: > > - A: one is with 80 GB SSD (and 12 GB memory) > http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/eg_ssd.xml > - B: the other with 750

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-13 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: >>-Original Message- >>From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf >>Of Barry Brimer >>Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 2:15 PM >>To: CentOS mailing list >>Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup server >> >>I use

Re: [CentOS] unison versus rsync

2010-01-13 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Anyone got any actual comparisons between unison and rsync specifically > related > to the performance of synchronization of large data sets over slow links? > > I have a huge tree to start replication of Friday and know that if I sync th

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-14 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: >>-Original Message- >>From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >>Of Benjamin Franz >>Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 2:12 PM >>To: CentOS mailing list >>Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup server >> >>If you

Re: [CentOS] Logrotate in CentOS 5.4 more brutal (to httpd at least) than in 5.3?

2010-01-15 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Christopher Thorjussen wrote: > I've just updated a few CentOS 5.3 servers to 5.4. One of them were a Apache > Webserver. Doing a diff/check on the new ".rpmnew" config files that are > made, I saw that the logrotate command for apache was changed. In 5.3 it did

Re: [CentOS] problems trying to download sme server

2010-01-17 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Ivan Arteaga wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to download SME Server 7.4 from Internet and always got md5 > checksum problems... I know it sounds like connection problems but I tried > from almost all the available mirrors, from different locations.. via > wireless,

Re: [CentOS] UID GID Problems.....

2010-01-19 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Tom Bishop wrote: > Hoping someone can help me fix something that I apparently messed up, i have > the issue that when I untar a file as root the uid and gid that get set are > not roots'.  I had change a user uid and gid to 1000 via usermo -u etc > but somehow

Re: [CentOS] Moving the system from 5.3 to 5.4

2010-01-19 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: >> Renato Botelho wrote: >> >>> My question is not *how* to update, but how the rpm detects a >>> new version is available and automatically update to rpms from >>> 5.4 version. >>> >>> >> >> I believe it gets the updates

Re: [CentOS] Bind data directory borked on update from 5.3 to 5.4

2010-01-19 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > I updated my secondary DNS server from 5.3 to 5.4 today.  After the > update, named would not start.  A bit of investigation found that all of > the files in /var/named/chroot/var/named/data had been turned into links > to themselves! > > Fort

Re: [CentOS] error rsyncing large file

2010-01-20 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Trying to rsync a rather large file from a windows server to a centos server > and all but this is working fine. > > As it's a 20 gig file I am trying to send the diff of with a -c, I suspect > over > the low bandwidth this presents an is

Re: [CentOS] Bind data directory borked on update from 5.3 to 5.4

2010-01-21 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Kai Schaetzl wrote on Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:00:48 +0100: > >> I wonder now if the owner of >> that directory should actually be named? > > Hm, after looking on other machines that have named installed but not in > use it's excactly the same ther

Re: [CentOS] Corporate drop box for files

2010-01-22 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I need to provide a means for our people to stop using the mail server > as a file server, a web site with a friendly interface has been asked > for instead of an ftp server. > > Anyone know of something/project that exists already? > > T

Re: [CentOS] Multiple RAID support in CentOS?

2010-01-29 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Ian Blackwell wrote: > On 30/01/2010 12:09 PM, Victor Padro wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I was wondering if someone could help me, > I'll try... >> I want to use one array with the 2 500GB HDDs in RAID1 for the OS and >> for some VMs, > That will work OK. >> and the othe

Re: [CentOS] CentOS as an internet kiosk : how to create a "fresh" user upon leaving GNOME ?

2010-02-01 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently busy setting up a machine for use as an internet kiosk. > Here's what I aim to do. > > - There's only one user on the system, 'invite'. One (very simple) > password. The machine is to be used publicly and freely. > > - To

Re: [CentOS] monitoring a workstation

2010-02-01 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:08 AM, MOKRANI Rachid wrote: > Hi, > > I need to monitor a workstation (Centos 5 x86_64). > > I need to obtain informations about : > > - cpu utilization per user, per a period, how many days per user, > > Any ideas about a good and simple free tool ? > > Regards. In addi

Re: [CentOS] very large difference between df and du (10 GB, hard to believe)

2010-02-01 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Matt Iavarone wrote: > > This is typical.  There were probably files deleted from the file > system that are still in use by a process.  Restarting the process > will release the files and df and du will jive. > That argument only holds until you reach the point i

Re: [CentOS] Passwordless ssh

2010-02-01 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Warren Michelsen wrote: > On Mac OS, in order to allow ssh using dsa keys, I would copy > ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub from my machine into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys of the > target machine. I've created .ssh directories in my account home as > well as in /root and copied the res

Re: [CentOS] SSH Question relating to Public and Private Keys

2008-04-16 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Peter Kjellstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Clint Dilks wrote: > > 1. Currently all of the key pairs we are using have empty passphrases is > > it worth the effort of changing this and setting up ssh-agent compared > > to what you gain

Re: [CentOS] SSH Question relating to Public and Private Keys

2008-04-16 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Brian Mathis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Peter Kjellstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Clint Dilks wrote: > > > 1. Currently all of the key pairs we are using hav

Re: [CentOS] Hard I/O lockup with EL6

2011-09-26 Thread Brian McKerr
Have you checked the cables you are using ? On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Benjamin Smith wrote: > On Monday, September 26, 2011 12:36:19 PM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > a) have you checked > > /var/log/message for memory or drive errors? > > Looked through the logs, there's *nothing* I can fin

Re: [CentOS] RTL8111/8168B always 100mbps

2011-09-27 Thread Brian Mathis
people's reaction to every problem was to turn it off (and many made it the default setting). Some still repeat the mantra as if it is gospel, but they are relics of a bygone era. If your first reaction is to disable auto-negotioation, please update your ways. We are a decade into the 21st cent

Re: [CentOS] guest vms crash host systems

2011-10-04 Thread Brian Mathis
, RAM, etc...) and/or memtest86+ on the RAM? This sounds like a hardware issue to me. -☙ Brian Mathis ❧- ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] guest vms crash host systems

2011-10-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Negative wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:41 AM, wrote: > >> Brian Mathis wrote: >> > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Negative >> > wrote: >> >> I built guest vm's one for Windows 7 and one for Windows XP usin

Re: [CentOS] Migrating CentOS 5 -> 6: where to put /etc/inittab respawn scripts?

2011-10-04 Thread Brian Mathis
you should be using the 'service' framework for, instead of inittab. In CentOS 5 you would create a script in /etc/init.d and start the service from there. I'm not yet familiar with CentOS 6, but I would bet looking for docs on how to do that will lead you in the right

Re: [CentOS] Chroot in CentOS 5.* ?

2011-10-07 Thread Brian Mathis
entOS 5 and give you the ability to set the chroot by groups. -☙ Brian Mathis ❧- ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.7 PHP upgrade

2011-10-10 Thread Brian Mathis
so good because it does not provide proper rpm tags that let other rpms know that php is installed. It announces itself as "php53", and most package looks for "php", so they can't find it. -☙ Brian Mathis ❧- ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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