[CentOS] query on backup

Dear All, I have a centOS 5 server running DNS and Mailserver also i do hav Squirrel Mail running which the users use as webmail i have about 200 users Now i would like to have a total disaster recovery example. if the machine fails i could install centOS on another machine and restore the user a

Re: [CentOS] query on backup

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:42:30 +0300 (AST) Mail Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wht could be the easiest way to acheive this.. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS ma

[CentOS] Plotter?

Hello all, How do we install a plotter in Centos5? Is it regarded as ordinary printer? It's using an Ikon Corporation card to connect at PCI. The driver for the card (IHCP) is successfully compiled and installed. Any hints are really appreciated. Thank you. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #3

[CentOS] Scheduled works...

Hi guys; Is there any structure/program for scheduled works in Centos 5.1?(I want to empty my /tmp folder at decided hours...How can I do that?) Thanks a lot... -- Tolun ARDAHANLI Bilgisayar Muhendisi E-posta:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Icq:326600 --

Re: [CentOS] Server to server communication

D Steward wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 07:41 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: you can pass 1K of info on a URL as arguments to a http 'page' which invokes your program in whatever web-language its written in. Well, the data is rather sensitive - authentication tokens, IPs and possibly cooki

[CentOS] Info about the NIC

If you do a ifconfig eth0 you get some info about the eth0 nic eth0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:B3:63:EF:43 inet addr:x.x.x.x Bcast:x.x.x.x Mask:x.x.x.x UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1166 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

Re: [CentOS] Info about the NIC

On Wednesday 19 March 2008 08:37:21 Tronn Wærdahl wrote: > If you do a ifconfig eth0 you get some info about the eth0 nic > > eth0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:B3:63:EF:43 > inet addr:x.x.x.x Bcast:x.x.x.x Mask:x.x.x.x > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:

Re: [CentOS] Server to server communication

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, D Steward wrote: It looks to me like OpenAMQ will be the ultimate solution I'm amazed that RedHat with a finger in almost every opensource pie hasn't backed this or come out with their own competing option, since it appears to tie in very nicely with clusters. Read closer,

[CentOS] Submission problem.....

My attachments are not being attached properly as they are not being probed by the catalog system as "test results",whenever i do my certification submissions. For this reason each attachment have to be re-attached. Please help Zenith wins FICCI Corporate Excellence award from Prime M

Re: [CentOS] Submission problem.....

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 6:23 AM, niranjan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My attachments are not being attached properly as they are not being probed > by the catalog system as "test results",whenever i do my certification > submissions. > > For this reason each attachment have to be re-attached.

Re: [CentOS] Scheduled works...

use crontab utility - Original Message - From: Tolun ARDAHANLI To: CentOS mailing list Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 1:43 PM Subject: [CentOS] Scheduled works... Hi guys; Is there any structure/program for scheduled works in Centos 5.1?(I want to empty my /tmp folder

Re: [CentOS] Server to server communication

On 3/19/08, Jim Wildman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, D Steward wrote: > > > It looks to me like OpenAMQ will be the ultimate solution > > I'm amazed that RedHat with a finger in almost every opensource pie > > hasn't backed this or come out with their own competing option, sinc

Re: [CentOS] Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by Centos 5.1 installation?

On Tuesday 18 March 2008 06:21:43 Yu-Hui Jin wrote: > Hi, Jason, > > Thanks and I tried the first method to start with the parameter, but it was > extremely slow loading each screen. one time I got to the testing media > page and i chose Test. and it seemed stuck there for ever so I forced > shutdo

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 37, Issue 7

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reac

Re: [CentOS] Scheduled works...

2008/3/19, Tolun ARDAHANLI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi guys; Hi Tolun > Is there any structure/program for scheduled works in Centos 5.1?(I want to > empty my /tmp folder at decided hours...How can I do that?) Use crontab for custom scripts. You maybe also look at tmpwatch (removes files which ha

[CentOS] Centos 5.1

I'm about to try Centos 5 (first time user). Question: I have the 5.0 CD-ROMs, so can I install with them and them update to 5.1 via the internet, or should I use the 5.1 CDs? Thanks. -Tom Tom Browder Niceville, Florida USA ___ CentOS mailing list Ce

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.1

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Tom Browder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm about to try Centos 5 (first time user). > > Question: I have the 5.0 CD-ROMs, so can I install with them and them > update to 5.1 via the internet, or should I use the 5.1 CDs? You can do both, install 5.0 with the C

[CentOS] what is this address meaning?

Hi I read the eth1 and have this ip address it is automatically assigned from system inet addr:0.0.0.6 Bcast:255.255.255.255 What is this address meaning? eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:21:07:A5:94 inet addr:0.0.0.6 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:0.0.0.0 ine

Re: [CentOS] what is this address meaning?

ann kok wrote: inet addr:0.0.0.6 Bcast:255.255.255.255 What is this address meaning? It means something's misconfigured. Can you post the contents of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 ? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://li

Re: [CentOS] what is this address meaning?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] network-scripts]# more ifcfg-eth1 # Intel Corporation 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller DEVICE=eth1 HWADDR=00:1B:21:07:A5:94 ONBOOT=yes # BOOTPROTO=dhcp TYPE=Ethernet # BOOTPROTO=dhcp --- Warren Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ann kok wrote: > > > > inet addr:0.0.0.6 Bcas

Re: [CentOS] what is this address meaning?

ann kok wrote: DEVICE=eth1 HWADDR=00:1B:21:07:A5:94 ONBOOT=yes # BOOTPROTO=dhcp TYPE=Ethernet # BOOTPROTO=dhcp Nowhere in here do you give the device a way to get an IP address. You've turned off DHCP, but don't give a static address, so I guess it's just picking a random value from somewhere

RE: [CentOS] remote command execution

> Can you give an actual example of something that fails? > > -- >Les Mikesell Les, it's not that it fails it is just that plink sends the command and waits for it to complete execution. Even if the shell script uses your nohup syntax, if I put in a long dd as a test command then have plink

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.1

Tom Browder wrote: I'm about to try Centos 5 (first time user). Question: I have the 5.0 CD-ROMs, so can I install with them and them update to 5.1 via the internet, or should I use the 5.1 CDs? Thanks. -Tom Tom Browder Niceville, Florida USA ___ C

[CentOS] Re: Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by Centos5.1 installation?

on 3-18-2008 10:51 PM Yu-Hui Jin spake the following: Here ya go 5 minutes http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_linux&message.id=12701&query.id=104245#M12701

[CentOS] Re: Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by Centos 5.1 installation?

on 3-18-2008 10:47 PM Yu-Hui Jin spake the following: I was told to try two methods: 1) linxu all-generic-ide 2) install ahci and config to use it in BIOS. #1 is too slow; #2, I checked my BIOS, there's no ahci option. That's why i'm following the article which tells how to install it fo

RE: [CentOS] Re: Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by Centos 5.1 installation?

hey scott... are you sure about the installation of windows drivers, not affecting the installation of linux. aren't there a number of cases where in order to install hardware on linux, you 1st need the windows drivers? might it be possible that the article/advice the poster was following was w

Re: [CentOS] Re: Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by Centos 5.1 installation?

On 3/19/08, bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey scott... > > are you sure about the installation of windows drivers, not affecting the > installation of linux. aren't there a number of cases where in order to > install hardware on linux, you 1st need the windows drivers? > > might it be possib

RE: [CentOS] Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized byCentos5.1 installation?

I don't know what your reply means. Here is what it says to do: "I went back and looked at the BIOS again and noted a setting under "Integrated Peripherals" for "SATA Mode" with the options of "IDE" or "RAID". Since the ata_piix module seemed to be the one at issue I turned on "RAID"

[CentOS] Re: Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by Centos 5.1 installation?

on 3-19-2008 8:34 AM bruce spake the following: hey scott... are you sure about the installation of windows drivers, not affecting the installation of linux. aren't there a number of cases where in order to install hardware on linux, you 1st need the windows drivers? might it be possible that

RE: [CentOS] Re: Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by Centos 5.1 installation?

bourbon can be good... xmas cooking!! although.. rum cakes aren't bad either... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Silva Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 7:52 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Re: Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not

[CentOS] How to prevent installer using disk labels?

Is there any way, when installing CentOS (or any RH-based distro), to prevent it from using disk labels in /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf, and to force it to just use the actual device names? For testing purposes, I am installing two different CentOS versions in different partitions, and am h

Re: [CentOS] Scheduled works...

Tolun ARDAHANLI wrote: Hi guys; Is there any structure/program for scheduled works in Centos 5.1?(I want to empty my /tmp folder at decided hours...How can I do that?) you should be aware, there are files in /tmp with long time persistence, the only stuff thats absolutely safe to delete is f

[CentOS] Way to not page swap programs

Is there a way to tell linux "dont ever swap out my program"... Like perhaps a list of programs (some setup file) that if any program in my file listing is running dont consider the program when looking for something to swap out? Does anything like that exist? Thanks, Jerry

Re: [CentOS] Way to not page swap programs

you can set vm.swappiness=0 in /etc/sysctl.conf that will do just about that. if your programs get a leak though you really do want the system to be able to swap or OOM might nuke them anyway. If you are really concerned about this make sure you have plenty of ram in the machine and set swappi

Re: [CentOS] remote command execution

Joseph L. Casale wrote: Can you give an actual example of something that fails? -- Les, it's not that it fails it is just that plink sends the command and waits for it to complete execution. Even if the shell script uses your nohup syntax, if I put in a long dd as a test command then have pl

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.1

> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Tom Browder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm about to try Centos 5 (first time user). ... > If you already have the 5.0 cdroms then it is probably best to do a > minimal install with 5.0 then upgrade to 5.1 and then use yum to > install the actual stuff you need

[CentOS] Making a CentOS livecd bootable on a flash drive

I was following the guide at https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/ to do this, and sure enough it claimed the partition wasn't bootable, so fdisk to toggle the flag bootable yet it still didn't boot. Any subtle nuance anyone might know to do this? Thanks! jlc

Re: [CentOS] Server to server communication

D Steward wrote: Well, the data is rather sensitive - authentication tokens, IPs and possibly cookies and/or password hashes, so doing a POST is more prudent than putting it in the URL. if someone is watching network traffic, POST and GET methods looks identical in terms of how much of data an

Re: [CentOS] Making a CentOS livecd bootable on a flash drive

Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I was following the guide at https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/ to do > this, and sure enough it claimed the partition wasn't bootable, so fdisk to > toggle the flag bootable yet it still didn't boot. Any subtle nuance anyone > might know to do this? Did you foll

RE: [CentOS] Making a CentOS livecd bootable on a flash drive

> Did you follow the steps outlined at: > https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/wiki/ImageFlash > > It includes instructions on how to mark your USB partition as bootable > using "parted". > Well, I used fdisk assuming it was equivalent after reading that. I guess I can install and try parted,

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.1

Deps. on what kind of hardware you have. CentOS 5.0 CD installer can not see my SATA harddisk. So I use CentOS 5.1 CD. If you don't have the same problem I had, you can do both. KC On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Tom Browder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Tom

Re: [CentOS] Making a CentOS livecd bootable on a flash drive

Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> Did you follow the steps outlined at: >> https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/wiki/ImageFlash >> >> It includes instructions on how to mark your USB partition as bootable >> using "parted". >> > > Well, I used fdisk assuming it was equivalent after reading that. I gues

[CentOS] CentOS 5.1 - Postfix Mysql

Hi I am building a new box and i want to get away from hand rolled stuff this time and i need Postfix with MySQL support compiled in - Is this available anywhere already built? thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.or

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 - Postfix Mysql

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Tom Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am building a new box and i want to get away from hand rolled stuff > this time and i need Postfix with MySQL support compiled in - > > Is this available anywhere already built? You will find this in the centosplus repo

Re: [CentOS] Incremental backups?

On Friday, March 14, 2008 11:12 PM -0500 Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you want something easier and can live with disk based backups instead of tape, look at backuppc (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/). I still run amanda because I set it up about 10 years ago and never have to d

Re: [CentOS] Move hard disk to a new machine

On Saturday, March 15, 2008 3:41 PM -0400 "William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unless it is an LVM volume? OP didn't say much. If so, export the volume first, then import it on the target machine. For those of us not familiar with the details of LVM, what does the export/import do?

Re: [CentOS] How to prevent installer using disk labels?

Tony Mountifield wrote: Is there any way, when installing CentOS (or any RH-based distro), to prevent it from using disk labels in /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf, and to force it to just use the actual device names? I dont think there is any sane way, in either the C4 or C5 installers. If

Re: [CentOS] which open source wiki CMS?

On Monday, March 17, 2008 11:57 AM +0100 Simon Jolle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Which mailing list is appropriate for this kind question? IMHO there is no general (not project specific) CMS list Since you're insistent on PHP, try comp.lang.php. There's also the comp.infosystems.www hierarchy

[CentOS] mail_always fails in CentOS 5

I'm using the same sudoers file for all hosts. Out of 35 hosts, 14 are CentOS 5, the rest are CentOS 4. There are mixtures of MTA's on both platforms but the behavior is consistent. Here is the snip of my sudoers: Defaults mail_always Defaults mailto="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Works fine in CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Re: Intel SATA controller (cmiiw) not recognized by Centos 5.1 installation?

Hi, guys, I finally found I only need to choose the "RAID" option for SATA mode (the other one is "IDE"). I didn't know by choosing it, Centos is able to load the ahci driver. That solves the problem. It took ton of time for me to figuring out the solution is such easy. I should've tried this