[CentOS] 32 Bit vs. 64 Bit Linux Server installation

2007-11-09 Thread Simon Jolle
Hi Centos Users What are the advantages of 64 Bit and respective 32 Bit installation of Centos? With PAE 32 Bit installation can address huge amount of RAM. As a desktop system, I prefer 32 Bit installation because of teething troubles in 64 Bit Linux world. When would you choose 64 Bit and when

Re: [CentOS] 32 Bit vs. 64 Bit Linux Server installation

2007-11-09 Thread Christopher Chan
Simon Jolle wrote: Hi Centos Users What are the advantages of 64 Bit and respective 32 Bit installation of Centos? With PAE 32 Bit installation can address huge amount of RAM. As a desktop system, I prefer 32 Bit installation because of teething troubles in 64 Bit Linux world. Intel does hardw

Re: [CentOS] 32 Bit vs. 64 Bit Linux Server installation

2007-11-09 Thread John R Pierce
Simon Jolle wrote: Hi Centos Users What are the advantages of 64 Bit and respective 32 Bit installation of Centos? With PAE 32 Bit installation can address huge amount of RAM. As a desktop system, I prefer 32 Bit installation because of teething troubles in 64 Bit Linux world. When would you ch

Re: [CentOS] 32 Bit vs. 64 Bit Linux Server installation

2007-11-09 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Simon Jolle wrote: ... > When would you choose 64 Bit and when 32 Bit? Some applications run faster when they are compiled and run under x86_64. I've seen programs running 30% faster. On i386, each process is limited to 2G RAM address space. My own desktop is Fedora 7 x86_64 with 32bit Firefox (

Re: [CentOS] 32 Bit vs. 64 Bit Linux Server installation

2007-11-09 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Mogens Kjaer wrote: ... > On i386, each process is limited to 2G RAM address space. Should have been 3G Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Fax: +45 33 27 47 08 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http:/

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7

2007-11-09 Thread centos-announce-request
L4.10.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/tetex-fonts-2.0.2-22.0.1.EL4.10.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/tetex-latex-2.0.2-22.0.1.EL4.10.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/tetex-xdvi-2.0.2-22.0.1.EL4.10.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

Re: [CentOS] nss_ldap bug fix update for CentOS?

2007-11-09 Thread Johnny Hughes
Sebastian Marten wrote: > Hello, > Is it Possible to create this fix for CentOS too? > > Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=243753 > > Solution: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0676.html > > regards > Sebastian Right ... one thing to remember is we will do everything upstre

[CentOS] System on time

2007-11-09 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, To get my system on time, I usually issue these two commands: # ntpdate de.pool.ntp.org # hwclock -w And when I want this to be done on startup, I put the two lines in rc.local. I wonder if this is an orthodox way to do things. Or is there something more appropriate? Niki Kovacs _

Re: [CentOS] System on time

2007-11-09 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:00:10PM +0100, Niki Kovacs enlightened us: > To get my system on time, I usually issue these two commands: > > # ntpdate de.pool.ntp.org > # hwclock -w > > And when I want this to be done on startup, I put the two lines in > rc.local. > > I wonder if this is an orthod

Re: [CentOS] System on time

2007-11-09 Thread Brian Mathis
On Nov 9, 2007 9:03 AM, Matt Hyclak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:00:10PM +0100, Niki Kovacs enlightened us: > > To get my system on time, I usually issue these two commands: > > > > # ntpdate de.pool.ntp.org > > # hwclock -w > > > > And when I want this to be done on star

RE: [CentOS] System on time

2007-11-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
Brian Mathis wrote: > On Nov 9, 2007 9:03 AM, Matt Hyclak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > chkconfig ntpd on > > will cause ntpd to sync and start the ntp daemon every boot. > > service ntpd start > > will start the daemon right now. > > > > Matt > > You can set the servers you want to use in

[CentOS] Intel 1000/PRO GT (e1000 driver) and "Detect Tx Unit Hang" error with 4GB RAM

2007-11-09 Thread Steven Alexson
My system configuration: ASUS M2A-VM motherboard AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2 GHz 4x A-DATA 1GB DDR2 800 memory 2x Intel 10/100/1000 Pro/1000 GT Desktop Network Adapter 2x Seagate Barracuda 250GB HD (RAID 1, software RAID) CentOS 5 x86_64; Kernel 2.6.23 (custom built); Version 7.6.9.2 e1000 driver

RE: [CentOS] System on time

2007-11-09 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Niki Kovacs wrote: > > Hi, > > To get my system on time, I usually issue these two commands: > > # ntpdate de.pool.ntp.org > # hwclock -w > > And when I want this to be done on startup, I put the two lines in > rc.local. > > I wonder if this is an orthodox way to do things. Or is there > som

Re: [CentOS] Intel 1000/PRO GT (e1000 driver) and "Detect Tx Unit Hang" error with 4GB RAM

2007-11-09 Thread Jim Perrin
On Nov 9, 2007 9:57 AM, Steven Alexson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can anyone offer me any assistance? Doesn't help fix your immediate issue, but the e1000 driver has some substantial updates coming in the 5.1 kernel. It's entirely possible that this will fix your issue. -- During times of

Re: [CentOS] System on time

2007-11-09 Thread Niki Kovacs
Matt Hyclak a écrit : On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:00:10PM +0100, Niki Kovacs enlightened us: To get my system on time, I usually issue these two commands: # ntpdate de.pool.ntp.org # hwclock -w And when I want this to be done on startup, I put the two lines in rc.local. I wonder if this is a

Re: [CentOS] System on time

2007-11-09 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 04:36:53PM +0100, Niki Kovacs enlightened us: > Matt Hyclak a écrit : > >On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:00:10PM +0100, Niki Kovacs enlightened us: > >>To get my system on time, I usually issue these two commands: > >> > >># ntpdate de.pool.ntp.org > >># hwclock -w > >> > >>And w

[CentOS] Gpdf - maintainer?

2007-11-09 Thread James B. Byrne
Can anyone here tell me who maintains Gpdf and where its project page is located? Google searches give one the impression that gpdf is no longer maintained but this is evidently not the case given the recent updates. Sincerely, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James

Re: [CentOS] System on time

2007-11-09 Thread Niki Kovacs
Matt Hyclak a écrit : Sounds like a daylight savings time issue, or you have the wrong timezone configured... My timezone is Europe/Paris, but indeed we recently switched to what we call here "winter time". ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Intel 1000/PRO GT (e1000 driver) and "Detect Tx Unit

2007-11-09 Thread Steven Alexson
Hmmm...any chance that you can ellaborate on what updates will be included with 5.1. Not sure if it will be of practical interest anymore (I have 4 new network cards...non-Intel..on the way) since I have spent far more time on this problem than I should have. But, from a curiousity perspect

[CentOS] Intel 1000/PRO GT (e1000 driver) and "Detect Tx Unit

2007-11-09 Thread Steven Alexson
Ignore this thread...misdirected the reply. This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/list

[CentOS] Intel 1000/PRO GT (e1000 driver) and "Detect Tx Unit Hang" error with 4GB RAM

2007-11-09 Thread Steven Alexson
Hmmm...any chance that you can ellaborate on what updates will be included with 5.1. Not sure if it will be of practical interest anymore (I have 4 new network cards...non-Intel..on the way) since I have spent far more time on this problem than I should have. But, from a curiousity perspective, I

Re: [CentOS] Intel 1000/PRO GT (e1000 driver) and "Detect Tx Unit Hang" error with 4GB RAM

2007-11-09 Thread Jim Perrin
On Nov 9, 2007 11:55 AM, Steven Alexson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I could resolve this problem and use the Intel cards, that would be > ideal. Then I could return the 4 cards I ordered today and save a bit > of money. If waiting the couple of weeks (projected) that it takes for > 5.1 to roll

Re: [CentOS] Installing skype in CentOS 5

2007-11-09 Thread Andrew Allen
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 03:47 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Andrew Allen wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 13:06 -0800, James A. Peltier wrote: > > > Andrew Allen wrote: > > > > Having just upgraded my system from CentOS 4.4 to 5.0, I'm a bit > > > > disappointed that I still can't

[CentOS] backups and md5 all in one while splitting

2007-11-09 Thread Ruslan Sivak
I'm trying to back up our svn repositories, and I found a nice little backup command line bzip's the backup and creates the md5 hash all in one: svnadmin dump --deltas /repo |bzip2 |tee dump.bz2 | md5sum >dump.md5 The problem is I need to split the backups, so this doesn't really work. Is the

Re: [CentOS] backups and md5 all in one while splitting

2007-11-09 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 12:53:00PM -0500, Ruslan Sivak wrote: > I'm trying to back up our svn repositories, and I found a nice little > backup command line bzip's the backup and creates the md5 hash all in one: > > svnadmin dump --deltas /repo |bzip2 |tee dump.bz2 | md5sum >dump.md5 > > The proble

Re: [CentOS] backups and md5 all in one while splitting

2007-11-09 Thread Ruslan Sivak
Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 12:53:00PM -0500, Ruslan Sivak wrote: I'm trying to back up our svn repositories, and I found a nice little backup command line bzip's the backup and creates the md5 hash all in one: svnadmin dump --deltas /repo |bzip2 |tee dump.bz2 | md5sum >du

Re: [CentOS] backups and md5 all in one while splitting

2007-11-09 Thread Ray Van Dolson
> Good idea, but no. The idea is to minimize disk IO, so I don't want to > read the files that I just wrote. I wish tee had a split option... Well we could get really creative perhaps... mkfifo temp.fifo split temp.fifo -b 64m & svnadmin dump --deltas /repo | bzip2 | tee temp.fifo | md5sum rm

Re: [CentOS] Postfix dying

2007-11-09 Thread Paul Norton
Christopher Chan wrote: Paul Norton wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Paul Norton wrote: > Postfix is dying on one of my servers almost nightly. This system is running CentOS5 with postfix-2.3.3-2. In the morning (after noticing it died) I try to run `service postfix stop` and I get a faile

Re: [CentOS] backups and md5 all in one while splitting

2007-11-09 Thread Shad L. Lords
I'm trying to back up our svn repositories, and I found a nice little backup command line bzip's the backup and creates the md5 hash all in one: svnadmin dump --deltas /repo |bzip2 |tee dump.bz2 | md5sum >dump.md5 The problem is I need to split the backups, so this doesn't really work. Is ther

Re: [CentOS] System on time

2007-11-09 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 05:15:22PM +0100, Niki Kovacs enlightened us: > Matt Hyclak a écrit : > > > >Sounds like a daylight savings time issue, or you have the wrong timezone > >configured... > My timezone is Europe/Paris, but indeed we recently switched to what we > call here "winter time". > I

Re: [CentOS] backups and md5 all in one while splitting

2007-11-09 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Ruslan Sivak wrote: I'm trying to back up our svn repositories, and I found a nice little backup command line bzip's the backup and creates the md5 hash all in one: If you have a newer Subversion, svnsync is great for this, albeit without the md5 sums. The destination rep

[CentOS] Slightly OT - unable to install hplip 2.7 on CentOS 5 64

2007-11-09 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
I have already reported this as a bug to the HP folks, but I was hoping someone here might have a clue about this one. Just bought an HP Deskjet F2120 and tried to install it on my CentOS 5.064-bit system. The printer installed fine, but sane does not recognize the device, so I tried to install h

Re: [CentOS] System on time

2007-11-09 Thread John R Pierce
Matt Hyclak wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 05:15:22PM +0100, Niki Kovacs enlightened us: Matt Hyclak a écrit : Sounds like a daylight savings time issue, or you have the wrong timezone configured... My timezone is Europe/Paris, but indeed we recently switched to what we call her

[CentOS] headphones on a packard bell , Help.......

2007-11-09 Thread Manuel Enrique Chavez Manzano
I had a little trouble with my new laptop, I have a Packard Bell MZ380 laptop with Realtek High Definition Audio, I have installed CentOS 5 on it, I have sound by the speaker but when I plug the headphone the sound is over, I mean I have not sound by the speaker and by the headphones. Can someone h

Re: [CentOS] headphones on a packard bell , Help.......

2007-11-09 Thread John R Pierce
Manuel Enrique Chavez Manzano wrote: I had a little trouble with my new laptop, I have a Packard Bell MZ380 laptop with Realtek High Definition Audio, I have installed CentOS 5 on it, I have sound by the speaker but when I plug the headphone the sound is over, I mean I have not sound by the speak

Re: [CentOS] headphones on a packard bell , Help.......

2007-11-09 Thread Manuel Enrique Chavez Manzano
El vie, 09-11-2007 a las 11:58 -0800, John R Pierce escribió: > Manuel Enrique Chavez Manzano wrote: > > I had a little trouble with my new laptop, I have a Packard Bell MZ380 > > laptop with Realtek High Definition Audio, I have installed CentOS 5 on > > it, I have sound by the speaker but when I

Re: [CentOS] headphones on a packard bell , Help.......

2007-11-09 Thread John R Pierce
yes that is, on windows xp with the drivers, when i plug a headphones, the sytstem shows me a message turn off the sound for a while and then start by the headphones, but in CentOS, the sound propierties only shows me a master channel. ah, then sounds like it requires software intervention

Re: [CentOS] backups and md5 all in one while splitting

2007-11-09 Thread Ruslan Sivak
Paul Heinlein wrote: On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Ruslan Sivak wrote: I'm trying to back up our svn repositories, and I found a nice little backup command line bzip's the backup and creates the md5 hash all in one: If you have a newer Subversion, svnsync is great for this, albeit without the md5 sum

[CentOS] Re: Centos5 install failure

2007-11-09 Thread John Thompson
On 2007-11-09, Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know...he did say that he restored lilo to get his FC1 > installation working again. grub should not have problems picking up its > second stage unless it rests beyond the 1024 cylinder and there is no > LBA support. That lead

[CentOS] Re: Centos5 install failure

2007-11-09 Thread John Thompson
On 2007-11-09, Garrick Staples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think your problem could happen if you installed the boot loader into the > active partition and there is a stale boot loader in the mbr. I told anaconda to write the boot record onto /dev/hda assuming that woul put it in the MBR of t