Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-28 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Christopher Chan >Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:35 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user > >Ubuntu for desktop is really a give and take. You get

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-28 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Matt >Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 11:29 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user > >Thats my thought as well. Ubuntu desktop and CentOS for servers.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-28 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Marcelo M. Garcia >Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 11:08 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user > >>> Sorry, but Fedora is no longer a good desktop cho

Re: [CentOS] Antispam with Postfix

2009-09-28 Thread Christopher Chan
Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> Postfix can handle that. You can have multiple lookup tables/maps. They >> do not even have to be the same type of database. >> > > I guess I can leave that part upto Postfix, but I still need a antispam > addin... > spamassassin via spamass-milter. Fast, no compl

Re: [CentOS] Stupid Question (Linux antivirus)

2009-09-28 Thread Ian Blackwell
Eric Clark wrote: > Is there a real big need for having an anti-virus on linux? > > if so what are some good ones to use? > Will the software be used in a commercial environment? If not, then you could use AVG from Grisoft:-

Re: [CentOS] Antispam with Postfix

2009-09-28 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Postfix can handle that. You can have multiple lookup tables/maps. They >do not even have to be the same type of database. I guess I can leave that part upto Postfix, but I still need a antispam addin... I asked on the Postfix list a while ago whether multiple LDAP server lookups could be config

Re: [CentOS] Stupid Question (Linux antivirus)

2009-09-28 Thread nate
Eric Clark wrote: > Is there a real big need for having an anti-virus on linux? Not unless your running a mail server or file server that serves clients that are vulnerable to viruses. > if so what are some good ones to use? I've always liked Sophos myself, very high quality. nate __

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6/Upstart

2009-09-28 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: > Has a beta been released and if so can anybody say whether it uses Upstart? > > or Has anyone worked with Upstart? > ___ No beta has been released. No ETA for a beta has been released. It will m

[CentOS] Stupid Question (Linux antivirus)

2009-09-28 Thread Eric Clark
Is there a real big need for having an anti-virus on linux? if so what are some good ones to use? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Finally got keepass installed

2009-09-28 Thread Eric Clark
well I finally got Keepass installed on CentOS The libraries for qt4 are actually located at pbone as well as keepass. I would love to know how to add pbone.net as a trusted repo in Yum, just for you guys that like to work with cross operating systems and having a password manager. Keepass is pr

Re: [CentOS] problem installing CentOS 5.3

2009-09-28 Thread Buz Davis
> > Eric Clark wrote: > have you tried getting KDE to run? > Eric, Thanks, that's a good suggestion to try KDE - so far I haven't figured out how to install it short of a complete reinstall. If I run yom I get a message to the effect that a database is malformed. It downs't say if the data

[CentOS] RHEL 6/Upstart

2009-09-28 Thread Christopher Chan
Has a beta been released and if so can anybody say whether it uses Upstart? or Has anyone worked with Upstart? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Updating an AntiVirus trougth a proxy (ERROR)

2009-09-28 Thread Spiro Harvey
Alberto, please don't reply to a previous email and change the subject line. Click on New Message when starting a new topic. You screw up the threading, and is considered thread hijacking. -- Spiro Harvey Knossos Networks Ltd 021-295-1923 www.knossos.net.nz

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-28 Thread Christopher Chan
Matt wrote: >>> I'm thinking of giving CentOS to a non-tech user for her new desktop. He >>> needs are small. She has been used to Mozilla for both mail and browsing, >>> so >>> equivalents there are not a problem. She needs grip and lame, for her mp3s >>> - >>> again no problem. >>> >>

Re: [CentOS] Antispam with Postfix

2009-09-28 Thread Christopher Chan
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I am mulling over the thought of replacing my current solution, it > works very well except for the following two issues: > > 1. LDAP recip verification for only one server, this gateway services multiple > domains who's directories are independent. I need to be able to ve

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-28 Thread aurfalien
I'd like to chime in on this. Being techy. nothing really bugs me as I think its all POS. However I do think the Linux desktop is not so good in general. I've been a big fan of Irix and used to maintain it when it was the golden child of the Unix desktop. I've been following the 5dwm project

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-28 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:29:12 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > >> I'm thinking of giving CentOS to a non-tech user for her new desktop.  He > >> needs are small.  She has been used to Mozilla for both mail and > >> browsing, so > >> equivalents there are not a problem.  She needs grip an

Re: [CentOS] Updating an AntiVirus trougth a proxy (ERROR)

2009-09-28 Thread M. Hamzah Khan
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 17:49 -0400, Alberto García Gómez wrote: > Here is my problem > > [r...@shannon CGPMcAfee]# ./updateDatFiles > CGPMcAfee DAT files update program version 2.2 > Local avvDAT version is 5726 > Connecting to 'update.nai.com' [72.247.238.178:80] via HTTP protocol... > *** failed

[CentOS] Updating an AntiVirus trougth a proxy (ERROR)

2009-09-28 Thread Alberto García Gómez
Here is my problem [r...@shannon CGPMcAfee]# ./updateDatFiles CGPMcAfee DAT files update program version 2.2 Local avvDAT version is 5726 Connecting to 'update.nai.com' [72.247.238.178:80] via HTTP protocol... *** failed to connect: socket error The problem is that I can't change the script and

Re: [CentOS] Antispam with Postfix

2009-09-28 Thread Ned Slider
Bowie Bailey wrote: > Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> >> 2. I use backup mx's, my current solution probably could work in this >> scenario but >> the support mechanism behind it is *very* weak and I can't get a perfect >> setup >> working. Spam hits the primary for a domain, gets blocked and then trie

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-28 Thread Matt
>> I'm thinking of giving CentOS to a non-tech user for her new desktop.  He >> needs are small.  She has been used to Mozilla for both mail and browsing, so >> equivalents there are not a problem.  She needs grip and lame, for her mp3s - >> again no problem. > > Desktop, non-techie - use Ubuntu in

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-28 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Sorin Srbu wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf >> Of Marcelo M. Garcia >> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 8:57 PM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user >> >> Sorry, but Fedor

Re: [CentOS] Antispam with Postfix

2009-09-28 Thread Bowie Bailey
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I am mulling over the thought of replacing my current solution, it > works very well except for the following two issues: > > 1. LDAP recip verification for only one server, this gateway services multiple > domains who's directories are independent. I need to be able to ve

[CentOS] Antispam with Postfix

2009-09-28 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I am mulling over the thought of replacing my current solution, it works very well except for the following two issues: 1. LDAP recip verification for only one server, this gateway services multiple domains who's directories are independent. I need to be able to verify the various domains off of i

Re: [CentOS] Any known problems with kernel-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 / x86_64 / 3ware?

2009-09-28 Thread David Tauriainen
> I have a server that is running centos 5.3 x86_64 that until last week was > running fine. With no error messages in console and in /var/log/messages > the server simply stops responding. I posted the following bug to RedHat yesterday for similar symptoms with RHEL 5.4, same kernel. https://bu

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Beer event London

2009-09-28 Thread Bob Taylor
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 08:24 +0100, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote: > >From Karan's blog: > > A few of us are going to be getting together for drinks on the Tuesday > 29th Oct 2009, everyone is welcome to come along. I'll get there for > about 18:15hrs and plan on being around till about 20:00 - Dep

Re: [CentOS] Warning in update

2009-09-28 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 12:08, Daniel Bruno wrote: > I did a "ls -la" in /usr/lib/libtcl8.4*, and show this result: > > -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 683136 Jul 25  2008 /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so > -rw-r--r--  1 root root      0 Set 10  2008 /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so;48c78993 > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   40

Re: [CentOS] rsync followup - what did I run?

2009-09-28 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 22:41, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > Many people have wondered what my rsync syntax was - > > [as root]: rsync -av /path/to/source m...@remote-host:/path/to/dest Is /path/to/source mounted NFS? What happens if you run it as your own user? > I'll be adjusting it to adapt to

Re: [CentOS] rpmstrap/rpmbootstrap to boostrap CentOS 5

2009-09-28 Thread Matthew Kent
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 18:27 +0200, Santi Saez wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any working script, similar to deboostrap, for CentOS 5? > > I have found rpmstrap [1] at RPMforge.. but only works for CentOS-4, and > appears that's out of date. > > thanks! > > [1] http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpm

Re: [CentOS] rpmstrap/rpmbootstrap to boostrap CentOS 5

2009-09-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 28/09/09 17:27, Santi Saez wrote: > Is there any working script, similar to deboostrap, for CentOS 5? yum --installroot ; tends to do most of what people want with rpmstrap. Does that tick the box for you ? the other workaround is to use mock and build the chroot using that. - KB __

[CentOS] rpmstrap/rpmbootstrap to boostrap CentOS 5

2009-09-28 Thread Santi Saez
Hi, Is there any working script, similar to deboostrap, for CentOS 5? I have found rpmstrap [1] at RPMforge.. but only works for CentOS-4, and appears that's out of date. thanks! [1] http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmstrap/ -- Santi Saez http://woop.es __

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Beer event London

2009-09-28 Thread Bill Quinn
Unfortunately too short notice, or I would have welcomed the opportunity to meet up, have a beer, maybe some curry and say hello. Bill -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: 28 September 2009 09:36 To: CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 - kickstart configuration

2009-09-28 Thread Alan McKay
> Finally, where on the installation cd’s would I place this kickstart file ? See the instructions I sent out a few weeks ago on how to set up your own KS server -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" _

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-28 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 27, 2009, at 9:35 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 28/09/09 02:11, Ross Walker wrote: >>> Eg. to convert this setup into a raid-5 : start with a 1 disk raid-1 >>> degraded, move a disks worth of data onto there, bring in the second >>> disk and let them sync into a 'normal' raid1 state, th

Re: [CentOS] Any known problems with kernel-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 / x86_64 / 3ware?

2009-09-28 Thread John Austin
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 09:02 -0400, mbneto wrote: > Hi, > > I have a server that is running centos 5.3 x86_64 that until last week > was running fine. With no error messages in console and > in /var/log/messages the server simply stops responding. > > After a reboot everything is fine. The on

Re: [CentOS] Storing Kerberos database in OpenLDAP

2009-09-28 Thread Dan Burkland
I went ahead and gave the MIT Kerberos LDAP backed option a try. So far it seems to work quite well and nothing has crashed (yet :)). I'm going to run this setup for a couple weeks and see if I can break it. Regards, Dan Burkland From: centos-boun...@centos.org

[CentOS] Any known problems with kernel-2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 / x86_64 / 3ware?

2009-09-28 Thread mbneto
Hi, I have a server that is running centos 5.3 x86_64 that until last week was running fine. With no error messages in console and in /var/log/messages the server simply stops responding. After a reboot everything is fine. The only change (that I could find) but that was not active before the

[CentOS] fully open source ECM? yup.

2009-09-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
it's all about the open source, baby. http://candyandaspirin.blogspot.com/2009/09/next-adventure-in-ecm-begins.html DISCLAIMER: the lady in question is a good friend of mine. but don't let that scare you off. :-) rday --

Re: [CentOS] problem installing CentOS 5.3

2009-09-28 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Monday 28 September 2009 00:30, Eric Clark wrote: > Boot to linux, and type memtest86  let it run for about 10 or 20 > minutes with the ram that you have installed > > Typically anything over 6 errors on a 512 stick will bring mayhem to > an OS, Any errors at all when running memtest86 is un

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Beer event London

2009-09-28 Thread Rohan Gilchrist
I'd love to attend, but tomorrow is my birthday and I've already made plans. Regards, Rohan. Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote: > From Karan's blog: > > A few of us are going to be getting together for drinks on the Tuesday > 29th Oct 2009, everyone is welcome to come along. I'll get there for > abo

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-28 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Marcelo M. Garcia >Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 8:57 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user > >Sorry, but Fedora is no longer a good desktop choic

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-28 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/27/2009 08:09 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > At Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:13:04 +0200 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > >> >> m.r...@5-cent.us a écrit : >> >>> I'd add in the search RHEL, at least to start. Beyond that, >>> some other distro, such as mandrake, may have compatible rpms. >> >> No! Never

Re: [CentOS] libqt4-qt3support Dependency Hell

2009-09-28 Thread Johnny Hughes
Please Read the information concerning "Guidelines for CentOS Mailing List posts" at the bottom of this link: http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=16 Specifically, it is much easier to follow a quoted e-mail on the list if you do not "top post". It is also better to set your e-

[CentOS] IP aliases of CentOS Guests not accessible running 2.6.18-164.el5xen

2009-09-28 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
Hi all, First of all I am posting this on two lists for a reason, because the issue being reported by me could be because of a change delivered by a Kernel update or due to Xen. I have recently managed to update all Xen Guest domains running CentOS 5.3 to the latest bunch of updates + Kernel. My

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-28 Thread James Bensley
Hi All, Thanks for all your replies. I understand what I have to do now and have read several tutorials to get a good grasp of everything. All your input has been greatly appreciated. Thank you all. Regards, James ;) -- Jonathan Swift - "May you live every day of your life." - http://www.brai

Re: [CentOS] Using yum with CentOS-2 mirrors

2009-09-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 28/09/09 04:17, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote: > [updates] > name=CentOS-2 updates > baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos-2/updates/ > ;baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/2.1/updates/i386/ actually this one should be : http://vault.centos.org/2.1/updates/ ( without the i386 at t

Re: [CentOS] Using yum with CentOS-2 mirrors

2009-09-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 28/09/09 04:17, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote: > [base] > name=CentOS-2 base > baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos-2/i386/CentOS/ > ;baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/2.1/final/i386/CentOS/ that second url looks correct. Is it possible for you to post the complete trace from y

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Beer event London

2009-09-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 28/09/09 08:53, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > On 09/28/2009 09:24 AM, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote: >> Tuesday >> 29th Oct 2009 > > October 29th is a Thursday. Doesn't he mean September? oops yes! 29th Sept! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://li

Re: [CentOS] External Backup Systems?

2009-09-28 Thread John Austin
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 03:17 +0100, M. Hamzah Khan wrote: > On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 21:10 -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > > At Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:40:17 +0100 CentOS mailing list > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hey everyone, > > > > > > My home server just had a disk failure a few weeks ag

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Beer event London

2009-09-28 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 09/28/2009 09:24 AM, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote: >Tuesday > 29th Oct 2009 October 29th is a Thursday. Doesn't he mean September? Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Mobile: +45 22 12 53 25 Email:

[CentOS] CentOS Beer event London

2009-09-28 Thread Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann
From Karan's blog: A few of us are going to be getting together for drinks on the Tuesday 29th Oct 2009, everyone is welcome to come along. I'll get there for about 18:15hrs and plan on being around till about 20:00 - Depending on how many people are around and what the feeling is - we might nip a