Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

On 28.12.2010 15:20, Bowie Bailey wrote: > The colors are not important aside from standardization. If you need to > fix one end of the cable, you have to make sure it's the same as the > other end. If you use the standard color scheme, that is not a problem. Not sure if that is true. I've alway

Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

On 25.12.2010 20:29, Ryan Wagoner wrote: > I commonly see jacks wired to T568B standard. I've seen some CAT6 > jacks with only the colors shown for T568B. The coloring for T568A is > backwards compatible with 1 or 2 line phone connectors. The B is the most common, and that is the one I use. As fo

Re: [CentOS] Superblock Problem

On 01.07.2010 23:32, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3: invalid argument >> setuproot: moving /root failed: No such file or directory >> setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory >> setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directo

Re: [CentOS] gcc? (w/ a bit of "vi vs. emacs")

Looks like brief is still available, as a rewrite for Windows as a console app. Can be run in linux using winconsole instead of wine. OTOH, I prefer ultraedit for linux (and windows) these days. -- //Morten //mor...@mortent.org ___

Re: [CentOS] Resizing a PV that belongs within a Volume Group?

Or just do it simple... take the extra free space on the disk, create a new partition there and add that as a new PV to the VG. -- //Morten //mor...@mortent.org ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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

If XFS doesn't play well with LVM, how can it even be an option? I couldn't live without LVM... -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org //IM: morten.torsten...@gmail.com I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to

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

.. There are many differences between JFS and JFS2 on AIX and the latter is better in many ways... more tuning and support for shrinking. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org //IM: morten.torsten...@gmail.com I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge

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

stable on 32-bit systems. You should not use it there. You need a 64-bit kernel. Default for servers should be 64-bit now anyway. Not many reasons left for a 32-bit system, and more and more 3. party applications have less and less support for 32-bit platforms in general. -- //Morten

Re: [CentOS] what else is missing in 5.4?

5.3/updates? On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > [r...@alan centos]# du -sh 5.* > 19G     5.3 > 14G     5.4 -- //Morten //mor...@mortent.org ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Missing yum-priorities in 5.4?

An upgrade should do fine, I think... the yum versions in 5.3 and 5.4 looks to be the same, so nothing would be uninstalled afaik. Looks to me that you will only see this when you do a fresh install of 5.4 -- //Morten //mor...@mortent.org ___ CentOS ma

[CentOS] Missing yum-priorities in 5.4?

I am looking for yum-priorities or any info on any changes here for CentOS 5.4. There is also a forum post for this here: Is this missing on purpose? Function merged with another yum package? Or is it just missing as an o

Re: [CentOS] New Centos 5.3 gnome backgroup

Michael Simpson wrote: > My fiance (who is the artistic one of the family) thinks the new > graphics are beautiful and i agree with her. Me too! I checked the artwork when it was announced and I liked it already then. Great work and thanks to all involved! -- //Morten _

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

Les Mikesell wrote: > The ones that require the work that the CentOS team does to > rebuild/rebrand/repackage before redistribution is permitted. This was As a corporation Red Hat HAD to do that, even if IANAL. CentOS as a model works just fine. Sure, sometimes there can be a lack of manpower

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

Karanbir Singh wrote: > That would be very wrong. Since people might think there were financial > reasons behind the delay, and there is nothing of that nature. Can gcc/make be distributed? Could people dedicate their CPU time ala SETI or fold...@home to test builds and compiles? I am not sure w

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

On 09.03.2009 11:09, Rick wrote: > Well, yeah, of course. But even if I got that wrong, the 4GB alone did not > work in the same slots the 2GB sticks were in. So, either the memory sticks are bad (one or two of them), or the memory have bad timing in some way making them not compatible with the m

Re: [CentOS] Mail delivery failing with 450

Kai Schaetzl wrote: > - as the MX is the same as your domain name you do not need an MX It is good to always have an MX. > - having four ns records all point to the same IP is just, uhm, pointless Can make it easier to separate workloads and move them to different servers later. //Morten

Re: [CentOS] compile driver before X starts

Ed Donahue wrote: > vi /etc/init.d > > cahnge the number 5 to 3 > > reboot > > fix driver > > change the 3 to 5 > > reboot or # telinit 3 # compile whatever # telinit 5 No reboot needed. -- //Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] squid stops working several times a day

Alexander Farber wrote: >> Sadly, CentOS squid packages are quite old. >> Squid recent releases are: 2.7.STABLE5 and 3.0.STABLE12... > > this explains, why OpenBSD+Squid worked well for us > at the same server - I guess OpenBSD's Squid package > is better maintained. Except you cannot really say,

Re: [CentOS] Port Forwarding

John wrote: > I am an open source person but when it comes to something like that I hate > to say it but Exchange has it covered. What's others opinions? How would you > do it? I'm currious to know how you would do this in an environment that has > many compliance problems. Mainly issues of privacy

Re: [CentOS] OT RHEL

Per Qvindesland wrote: \> In the company we are working for we are looking at buying a p520 system > with HACMP, that it why I am looking for a ppc version. RHEL 4 and 5 both works great on the IBM power systems. Ditto for PowerHA (nee HACMP) version 5.4 for both AIX and Linux. With the p520, I

Re: [CentOS] difference in x86 64 bit centos between 4.x and 5.xversions

RobertH wrote: > is there a reason to stay with the older version other than for specific > deprecated hardware issues or something else? No, IMO. If you install a new system then install CentOS 5. Version 5 is so old by now that all major applications should be supported there. The usual YMMV a

Re: [CentOS] More than 2TB RAID...

ve such a tool. Another option is of course to create a number of 2TB partitions and create a VG with all of them as PVs. Of course, you would need 6 partitions for this, but once you have them addded to a VG it is pretty seamless. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org //IM:

Re: [CentOS] More than 2TB RAID...

RAID5. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org //IM: morten.torsten...@gmail.com I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. -- Woody Allen ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

s signed with 55AAh and just jump into the code in the first sector. So if LVM leaves the first sector and track (so grub can hide there) alone, it should work just fine. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org //IM: morten.torsten...@gmail.com I can't listen to that much Wag

Re: [CentOS] Bezerk they will go!

drew einhorn wrote: > Note the minimalist .sig > Probably should fatten it up You already did by adding a copy of your email as HTML ... ;) -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org //IM: morten.torsten...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailin

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

/dev/sda and never care about the old partitions anymore. Everything should be in LVM for ease of management. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org //IM: morten.torsten...@gmail.com I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland

Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

n be a easy option to push through red-tape bureaucrats. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org //IM: morten.torsten...@gmail.com I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. -- Woody Allen __

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 4.7 or 5.2 32 bits O.S. for ORACLE DB server??

or 2GB)... almost for sure your database will need more memory sooner rather than later, and 8-16GB memory on a RDBMS isn't that much anymore. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org //IM: morten.torsten...@gmail.com I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 4.7 or 5.2 32 bits O.S. for ORACLE DB server??

16GB (or up to 64GB) memory all at once. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org //IM: morten.torsten...@gmail.com I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. -- Woody Allen ___ Cent

Re: [CentOS] Checking fan state

, as it either doesn't detect anything or the readings it gets is just nonsense. Updating lm_sensors is not high on the priority list for Red Hat. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org //IM: morten.torsten...@gmail.com I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start ge

Re: [CentOS] flash fails to work on Los Angeles Times website - fix

e OP wanted to report it as a bug, it was just something he wanted to share with others. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org //IM: morten.torsten...@gmail.com I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. -- Woody Allen

Re: [CentOS] cpuspeed problems with 5.2 and 2.6.18-92.1.18 kernel revision

o something using the GUI widget or through /proc solves the problem, until the next reboot at least. Don't have RHEL 5.2 on that machine anymore to test. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: mor...@mortent.org //IM: morten.torsten...@gmail.com I can't listen to that much Wagner. I star

Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM

ess. There are still constraints in PAE on how much memory one single process can use and adding memory to a machine where you use PAE does not automagically solve all your memory bottlenecks. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't listen to t

Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM

apping and/or limited space in the 4GB range. YMMV depending on specific workload of course. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. -- Woody Allen ___

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

nd even if you do have one you still paid for it at some point. Now, if only IBM could implement the Power hardware Hypervisor to the Intel/AMD world... -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

run your browser? You need a Windows license to run VIC, so the price of installing ESXi/VIC is around $100 and up. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. -- Woody

Re: [CentOS] Cluster Heart Beat Using Cross Over Cable

crossover cable. Maybe you should investigate alternate paths? -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. -- Woody Allen ___ C

Re: [CentOS] SATA errors on CentOS 5.2

ATA has brought some issues with boot order, but nothing that could not be solved by specifying boot order in the bios. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Re: [CentOS] RHEL6

Karanbir Singh wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Any sign of a beta? afaik, rhel6 beta is going to be Apr / May 2009 ...and if previous beta releases can be a yardstick, a beta might be released in december/january. But that is just guessing on my part. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email

Re: [CentOS] new list proposal

s a pretty wide term. This is not really "recommendations", just some alternatives off the top of my head. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. The wor

Re: [CentOS] new list proposal

centos-tech list sounds more like the name of the "developer" or "power user" list than a semi-off-topic technology discussion group. That was my first thought when seeing the new name. ...and fwiw I would put the new list into the same label/folder too, so I don't real

[CentOS] CentOS 5 on POWER

Any news on this? Will we see a POWER version of CentOS 5? -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. The worst that can be said is that he's an und

Re: [CentOS] Installing Postfix/Dovecot

Giulio Troccoli wrote: I have tried both mail and Thunderbird. mail of course doesn't work because it read from /var/spool/mail while postfix puts the email in Maildir. However I would have thought that I could download the emails with Thunderbird (on my laptop). I have a similar setup, but I

Re: [CentOS] Re: PHP 5.2.5 when ?

Michael A. Peters wrote: PHP is a module that adds functionality to Apache. The only parts of the PHP is the programming language that drives a large chunk of web applications out there. It is not just an apache module. Back to the point though, PHP is not a major component of RHEL/CentOS.

Re: [CentOS] Re: PHP 5.2.5 when ?

Steven Vishoot wrote: I can't understand why people choose an enterprise distro for it's longevity, and then proceed to try and break it. It is almost like buying a brand new car and then immediately replacing the engine. Does Having your cake and eating come to mind? No, because in this case

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

[snip away bible quotes] This is getting way off topic, please consider what you post. //Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [Fwd: dovecot errors after upgrade to 5.1]

Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Everyone, Looks like my Centos 5.0 mail server upgraded automatically last night to 5.1. It appears to have worked normally until about 16:00 CST when dovecot began to fail. I have rebooted the system to be able to use the 5.1 kernel, but dovecot still continues to fail

Re: [CentOS] Sort imap e-mail remotely

Christopher Chan wrote: solution(maybe I'm search with the wrong keywords). I found fetchmail & procmail, but I wasn't able to figure out if they can do it. http://imapfilter.hellug.gr/ But then he needs to have imapfilter running. For automated sorting of email I use procmail. Check with

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 on Large Disks

Anup Shukla wrote: Format and run the dd command again. The speed is 130MB/s now. It can vary a quite a bit depending on where you hit the disk. Remember, what you are testing is just how fast dd can read from /dev/zero and write to the file in a filesystem with 1k blocks. How that will map t

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 on Large Disks [SOLVED]

Anup Shukla wrote: Still, given the suggestion, i will surely try to reduce the number of slices. I would make one system LUN at say 20GB and one data LUN with the rest of the RADI5 space. On the system LUN I would make a /boot filesystem and a LVM partition with at least a / filesystem and

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 on Large Disks.

Anup Shukla wrote: So finally, i am putting a 300G SATA to act as the "system" drive. Then use the other 750G's to be the big RAID 5 Volume (XFS) If you use a hardware RAID adapter, you can make two LUNs from the disks. So make one big RAID5 array but two logical drives. I would still use LVM

Re: [CentOS] Re: DocX support in OpenOffice

Scott Silva wrote: The big problem is when you install Office 2007 the default save format is docx. And if you set to to the older versions you get a warning dialog that you will lose features, become impotent and bald, etc... As a reference for this thread, check this:

Re: [CentOS] DocX support in OpenOffice

Miguel Medalha wrote: It is not only a problem for Linux users. Office 2003/XP/2000 etc can not read these files either. I know many Windows only shops who are pretty annoyed with the upgrade churn Microsoft force on them. A filter that enables Office 2003 to open DocX files is available free

Re: [CentOS] DocX support in OpenOffice

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the basic problem with Linux! Over 1 million office 2007 users and they have to change their software because it does not conform to the "standard". It is not only a problem for Linux users. Office 2003/XP/2000 etc can not read these files either. I know many

Re: [CentOS] DocX support in OpenOffice

first last wrote: Has anyone got the docx plugin for OpenOffice 2 running in CentOS? Is that the new Microsoft format? Support for that is planned in OpenOffice version 3, afaik. You should ask the creators of the X-formats (x-files? hehe) .docx, .xlsx etc save in an earlier format and send

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS

there. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. The worst that can be said is that he's an underachiever. ___ Cent

Re: [CentOS] Can't get XFS enabled on Centos 5.0

is that simple? -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. The worst that can be said is that he's an underachiever.

Re: [CentOS] apt-cacher for CentOS

hing that could be re-packaged? -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. The worst that can be said is that he

Re: [CentOS] Re: Logwatch for postfix

logwatch versions, as it is pretty obvious, but I want to keep to the base repos as much as possible. But thanks for the tip! I got a patch for the postfix script for logwatch that works great for me. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if

Re: [CentOS] Logwatch for postfix

Morten Torstensen wrote: Anyway, patching /usr/share/logwatch/services/postfix with your patch fixed it. /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services/postfix of course... -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if it turns out that there is a

Re: [CentOS] Logwatch for postfix

Les Bell wrote: You can suppress messages by adding regexp patterns to /etc/logwatch/conf/ignore.conf. For example: Thanks, that can be a handy way too. But I preferred to fix the filter and will keep ignore.conf as a last stopgap measure. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [CentOS] Logwatch for postfix

too, but I could not see any config entries that pointed logwatch there. Anyway, patching /usr/share/logwatch/services/postfix with your patch fixed it. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if it turns out that there is a God, I

[CentOS] Logwatch for postfix

t for CentOS. Anyone seen this problem on CentOS or is it some specific problem to my configuration? I use fetchmail/postfix/dovecot/procmail locally on the server to consolidate mail. Could be that it tries to filter on some hostname/domain name? -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL P

Re: [CentOS] mysql and windows

f hardware. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. The worst that can be said is that he's an underachiever. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] need help on second Ethernet port (eth1) point to point connect

Robert Moskowitz wrote: A large number of NICs are autosensing. They do not need a crossover And rx/tx autosensing is part of the gigabit ethernet standard afaik. Modern gigabit cards should be able to autosense speed, duplex and direction. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [CentOS] DVD Drive Recommendations

and I have not detected any functional differences in use in linux, apart from the different feature sets and speeds. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. The

Re: [CentOS] DVD Drive Recommendations

are commodity these days with standard interfaces. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. The worst that can be said is that he's a