Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/31/2014 2:09 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > d) They*do* need to be on the network, so we can back up the pictures and > videos to a server. That means they*must* be up to date on security. the Aircams are network devices. they use https and rtsp or whatever it is.the PC/server running

[CentOS] Are VMAC drivers stable?

2014-01-31 Thread Jan Hugo Prins
Hi, I'm currently looking into the VMAC options that Keepalived had to offer. This all looks very nice, but now I heard that the VMAC driver in the linux kernel is not really stable if you are not on a 3.2 kernel or later. Can anyone here tell me some more about this? Is this really true? Should I

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 4:30 PM, wrote: > >> The price is still right for CentOS 5.x... Why not reinstall and >> ignore it for another 3 years? Even if RH backports the breakage to >> the older driver you could probably keep using an older module. > > We're trying to get rid of all 5.x ser

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread m . roth
Warren Young wrote: > On 1/31/2014 15:06, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> That's not going to happen. The budget won't allow that much for this >> item. > > So find the person who chose that arbitrary number, and explain to them > that in their ignorance, they chose a number that has no connection with

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread Warren Young
On 1/31/2014 15:06, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > That's not going to happen. The budget won't allow that much for this > item. So find the person who chose that arbitrary number, and explain to them that in their ignorance, they chose a number that has no connection with reality. Ask them -- now t

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 4:04 PM, wrote: > > Are you saying it worked right in 5.x? If that's the case, why not > wait until 2017 for something else? Because it has to work, perfectly, right now and every day, 24x7x365.25. Turning it down is not an

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 4:04 PM, wrote: Are you saying it worked right in 5.x? If that's the case, why not wait until 2017 for something else? >>> >>> Because it has to work, perfectly, right now and every day, 24x7x365.25. >>> Turning it down is not an option. >> >> Did it do tha

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 1/31/2014 11:55 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Hmmm... that $99 each camera gets expensive, fast. > > did I mention these are HD (1280x720) cams with decent low light > sensitivity (but not IR nightvision)? I didn't find any decent > quality weatherproof PoE cameras wi

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread m . roth
Warren Young wrote: > On 1/31/2014 12:55, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> >> Hmmm... that $99 each camera gets expensive, fast. > > Have you considered that part of the reason you're having hardware > problems is that you're using $19 cameras, and expecting professional > results from them? > > $99 for

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:31 PM, wrote: >> >>> Are you saying it worked right in 5.x? If that's the case, why not >>> wait until 2017 for something else? >> >> Because it has to work, perfectly, right now and every day, 24x7x365.25. >> Turning it down is not an option. > >

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/31/2014 11:55 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Hmmm... that $99 each camera gets expensive, fast. did I mention these are HD (1280x720) cams with decent low light sensitivity (but not IR nightvision)? I didn't find any decent quality weatherproof PoE cameras with mounting hardware for much

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread Warren Young
On 1/31/2014 12:55, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > Hmmm... that $99 each camera gets expensive, fast. Have you considered that part of the reason you're having hardware problems is that you're using $19 cameras, and expecting professional results from them? $99 for a networked PoE camera is *cheap

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:31 PM, wrote: > >> Are you saying it worked right in 5.x? If that's the case, why not >> wait until 2017 for something else? > > Because it has to work, perfectly, right now and every day, 24x7x365.25. > Turning it down is not an option. Did it do that under 5.x, or di

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 1/31/2014 7:52 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> With the continuing annoyance from motion, my manager's asked me to go >> looking again for a video surveillance appliance: basically, a >> motion-detecting DVR and cameras. The big thing, of course, is a) price >> (this is a U

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/31/2014 7:52 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > With the continuing annoyance from motion, my manager's asked me to go > looking again for a video surveillance appliance: basically, a > motion-detecting DVR and cameras. The big thing, of course, is a) price > (this is a US federal gov't agency, and

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:50 PM, wrote: >> >> c) The software bugs keep coming: I had trouble last year, when we went >> to 6.x, > > Are you saying it worked right in 5.x? If that's the case, why not > wait until 2017 for something else? Because it has to work, perfectly,

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:50 PM, wrote: > ...but my manage says he'd like to > get out of the business of making video surveillance work, when there's > off-the-shelf stuff out there. Sounds like a classic problem where you have three requirements... 1. "Just works" / off-the-shelf, no man

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:45 PM, wrote: > Mostly likely it *will*. I think we expect to get a surveillance appliance > - a DVR with firmware, and cameras as part of the package. The ancient USB > cheapie webcams will go. I see, so you're looking at a complete package that includes everything.

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:50 PM, wrote: > > c) The software bugs keep coming: I had trouble last year, when we went to > 6.x, Are you saying it worked right in 5.x? If that's the case, why not wait until 2017 for something else? > I hear a couple years ago, $10? $19.99?, but my manage says he

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:00 AM, wrote: >> > >> I think you misunderstood me. I'm not looking for IP cameras - we'll be >> getting cameras that plug into a surveillance DVR appliance. It's the >> ->DVR's<- firmware software will do the recording and picture taking. >> What

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread m . roth
Matt Garman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:00 AM, wrote: >> I think you misunderstood me. I'm not looking for IP cameras - we'll be >> getting cameras that plug into a surveillance DVR appliance. It's the >> ->DVR's<- firmware software will do the recording and picture taking. >> What we nee

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:00 AM, wrote: > > > I think you misunderstood me. I'm not looking for IP cameras - we'll be > getting cameras that plug into a surveillance DVR appliance. It's the > ->DVR's<- firmware software will do the recording and picture taking. What > we need is to be able to d/

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:00 AM, wrote: > I think you misunderstood me. I'm not looking for IP cameras - we'll be > getting cameras that plug into a surveillance DVR appliance. It's the > ->DVR's<- firmware software will do the recording and picture taking. What > we need is to be able to d/l *f

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread m . roth
Matt Garman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:52 AM, wrote: >> With the continuing annoyance from motion, my manager's asked me to go >> looking again for a video surveillance appliance: basically, a >> motion-detecting DVR and cameras. The big thing, of course, is a) price >> (this is a US fede

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:52 AM, wrote: > With the continuing annoyance from motion, my manager's asked me to go > looking again for a video surveillance appliance: basically, a > motion-detecting DVR and cameras. The big thing, of course, is a) price > (this is a US federal gov't agency, and bei

[CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-01-31 Thread m . roth
With the continuing annoyance from motion, my manager's asked me to go looking again for a video surveillance appliance: basically, a motion-detecting DVR and cameras. The big thing, of course, is a) price (this is a US federal gov't agency, and being civilian, money is *tight*, don't give me the l

Re: [CentOS] Recent version of Latex

2014-01-31 Thread John Doe
From: Patrick Begou > I've tried to use texlive-2013-0.1.20130608_r30832.fc19.src.rpm but I > can't build it! I fall in a sort of circular dependancy: Maybe read this conversation:   https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-July/184862.html Good luck! JD ___

Re: [CentOS] Recent version of Latex

2014-01-31 Thread Patrick Begou
I've tried to use texlive-2013-0.1.20130608_r30832.fc19.src.rpm but I can't build it! I fall in a sort of circular dependancy: rpmbuild --clean --rebuild ./texlive-2013-0.1.20130608_r30832.fc19.src.rpm error: Failed build dependencies: harfbuzz-devel is needed by texlive-3:2013-0.1.20130608_

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5: NFS server crashes with list_add corruption errors

2014-01-31 Thread Alessio Cecchi
Hi Jeffrey, this PowerEdge has a replica of the data on another server. Do you believe it is a hardware problem and not software? What makes you think that? Thanks Il 30/01/2014 16:36, Jeffrey Hass ha scritto: > Allesio, > > Are these VM's -- did you move the /VM files/ respectively to backup

Re: [CentOS] samba vs LDAP - can I see LDAP logs, please?

2014-01-31 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/30/2014 11:57 PM, Todor Petkov wrote: > what kind of LDAP server (389-DS, OpenLDAP)? Few months ago I tried to > configure Samba to authenticate against 389-DS. I found out, that Samba > does not read the 'password' value, but 'sambaNTPassword'. its certainly true that Windows passwords are h