Re: [CentOS] Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>Remember that windows integration website ( don't remember the name >>but related to nLite and ryanvm) shutdown by Microsoft - it made a >>great deal of news because they had scripts to take out annoyances >>such as balloons popping up in

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:12 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > Rudi Ahlers wrote >> Simple, it's only a NAS device, and not really a file server / web >> server / data base server as well. The purposes I needed is to replace >> SMB on the network, and iSCSI seemed like a good alternative. The >> server

Re: [CentOS] full-fledge PDF editor for Linux

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:25 PM, MHR wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Rob Townley wrote: >> >> Acrobat isn't easy to use either.  i find it kinda clunky and not >> intuitive.  Maybe it is the nature of vector graphics and text. >> >> InkScape for graphics imports / exports pdf. >> The SV

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

Rudi Ahlers schrieb > > John, you're right. iSCSI isn't an SMB replacement as I have learned > through all of this. SMB is good for sharing data between many PC's, > and even servers, but from what I understand it's also slower that > iSCSI and won't allow me to scale the storage by simply adding a

[CentOS] local centos repository upgrade from 5.3 to 5.4

Hi list, I run quite a few centos 5.3 servers and have a local yum repository which is working fine. Below a list of what I'm rsyncing at the moment + an extract from my / etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo file I copied the OS directory from the install media and ran createrepo on that dir. I

[CentOS] rpm --freshen issue (was: Re: Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS)

On 10/20/2009 12:15 PM Benjamin Franz wrote: > ken wrote: >> Okay, here's one. Maybe someone here can figure it out. >> Upgrading from 4.5 to 4.5. From a 4.6 ISO I copied all the RPMs into a >> directory... let's call it c:/install :). Now the oracle dba has >> strict parameters on what version

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Rudi Ahlers schrieb >> >> John, you're right. iSCSI isn't an SMB replacement as I have learned >> through all of this. SMB is good for sharing data between many PC's, >> and even servers, but from what I understand it's also slower that >>

Re: [CentOS] 5.4 at last?

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:58:59PM -0400, Mathew S. McCarrell wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:08 PM, fred smith > wrote: > > > Now that it appears that some folks are able to get the 5.4 downloads > > (and a GREAT BIG THANK YOU to all the centos team members who make this > > possible!) I'm won

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

Rudi Ahlers schrieb: > > Hi Rainer, > > I honestly don't want to spend a lot of cash on a proprietary system > like NetApp and actually want to use a lot of old tower machines (i.e. > limited space for hard drives, and no redundancy, slower CPU's, etc) > we already have. CentOS is my preferred OS o

Re: [CentOS] Console priority

List archive: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/ On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Daniel Bird wrote: > Hi all, > A while back I vaguely remember someone posting a link to documentation > on how to prioritise console access (for want of a better expression). > For the life of me I can't fin

Re: [CentOS] rpm --freshen issue (was: Re: Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS)

Sorry, don't have time to read the whole thread (busy day!), so please excuse me if I just add to the noise, but this may work for you (at a bash prompt): for x in *; do rpm --freshen --repackage $x; done If it's not what you're looking for, I apologize in advance. :) -- David Fix ---

Re: [CentOS] local centos repository upgrade from 5.3 to 5.4

Hi :) - "Paul Herbosch" escreveu: > > I run quite a few centos 5.3 servers and have a local yum repository > which is working fine. > Below a list of what I'm rsyncing at the moment + an extract from my > /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo file > I copied the OS directory from the install me

Re: [CentOS] rpm --freshen issue (was: Re: Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS)

The problem with such a loop is that only one pkg is the arg to each invocation of the rpm command. So if there are any dependencies for a particular invocation, nothing will be installed. From: David Fix To: CentOS mailing list Date: 10/21/2009 07:32 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] rpm --freshen

Re: [CentOS] Console priority

Lincoln Zuljewic Silva wrote: > List archive: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/ > Thanks for not reading my post. See "I can't find it in the archives or via Google" in the text below. > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Daniel Bird wrote: > >> Hi all, >> A while back I vaguely remem

Re: [CentOS] local centos repository upgrade from 5.3 to 5.4

On 21 Oct 2009, at 13:48, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior wrote: > Hi :) Hi Antonio. > - "Paul Herbosch" escreveu: >> >> I run quite a few centos 5.3 servers and have a local yum repository >> which is working fine. >> Below a list of what I'm rsyncing at the moment + an extract from my >>

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > > John, you're right. iSCSI isn't an SMB replacement as I have learned > through all of this. SMB is good for sharing data between many PC's, > and even servers, but from what I understand it's also slower that > iSCSI and won't allow me to scale the storage by simply addin

Re: [CentOS] local centos repository upgrade from 5.3 to 5.4

On 10/21/2009 02:36 PM, Paul Herbosch wrote: ... > another question: > do 5.4 rpms at some point end up in the 5.3 update repo? > (if this is the case I don't have to do anything but wait for them to > show up) > or do I always have to rsync 5.4 over and arrange my files so that yum > finds them in

Re: [CentOS] "conventional cluster management software"

nate wrote: > > Clustering is a really complex thing to get right, it can often > cause more problems than it would otherwise prevent. Even some > high end clustering is really poor. A couple of jobs ago I had > to use BEA Weblogic application clustering for a massive J2EE > app. Ran us roughly $1

Re: [CentOS] Console priority

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Daniel Bird wrote: > > Lincoln Zuljewic Silva wrote: >> List archive: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/ >> > Thanks for not reading my post. See "I can't find it in the archives or > via Google" in the text below. Spent a few minutes looking at the the arc

[CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

Hi there folks. I've been watching the never ending "CentOS 5.4 OMG WHEN?" threads for the last few days / weeks and had a question. I'm pretty new to anything rpm based. I used Red Hat 9 back in college, but that's about it. Currently, I do have a few Cent OS servers and we're slowly migrating

Re: [CentOS] local centos repository upgrade from 5.3 to 5.4

On 21 Oct 2009, at 14:52, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > On 10/21/2009 02:36 PM, Paul Herbosch wrote: > ... >> another question: >> do 5.4 rpms at some point end up in the 5.3 update repo? >> (if this is the case I don't have to do anything but wait for them to >> show up) >> or do I always have to rsync 5

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > You can, if you connect the iscsi block devices into one machine that can > combine them in one or more md raid devices, put a filesystem on them, and > export via nfs and/or smb to the systems that want shared space.  However, the If you did

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

Jonathan Moore wrote: > Hi there folks. I've been watching the never ending "CentOS 5.4 OMG > WHEN?" threads for the last few days / weeks and had a question. I'm > pretty new to anything rpm based. I used Red Hat 9 back in college, > but that's about it. Currently, I do have a few Cent OS serv

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

Jonathan Moore wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> You can, if you connect the iscsi block devices into one machine that can >> combine them in one or more md raid devices, put a filesystem on them, and >> export via nfs and/or smb to the systems that want shared

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

At Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:25:53 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Hi there folks. I've been watching the never ending "CentOS 5.4 OMG > WHEN?" threads for the last few days / weeks and had a question. I'm > pretty new to anything rpm based. I used Red Hat 9 back in college, > but that's abou

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

Chan Chung Hang Christopher schrieb: > > I suspect so. After all, it is just seen as a disk as far as md is > concerned and it will do the same normal thing if you unplugged a single > disk from the array. > But the latency over the net is much higher. Who knows if the kernel can handle this

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

>Fedora does not have 'point releases'. Right... >One does a 'fresh' re-install every 6 months to a year (or something like >that). Well, not quite. Although it being what it is and sometimes breaking, you can yum upgrade it[1], but the suggested method involves using anaconda to upgrade it, wh

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

On Oct 21, 2009, at 5:38 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > Hi Rainer, > > I honestly don't want to spend a lot of cash on a proprietary system > like NetApp and actually want to use a lot of old tower machines (i.e. > limited space for hard drives, and no redundancy, slower CPU's, etc) > we already

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Rainer Duffner wrote: > But the latency over the net is much higher. > Who knows if the kernel can handle this in all situations? I could see it taking longer to notice a failed disk then it normally *should*. I wonder what type of impact this would have. -jonat

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

Thanks for the input folks. I think I see now that it's going to be a pretty easy going process, and I don't need to screw around with crazy update processes. Very good to know. -jonathan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.or

Re: [CentOS] rpm --freshen issue (was: Re: Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS)

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, ken wrote: > > On 10/20/2009 12:15 PM Benjamin Franz wrote: >> ken wrote: >>> Okay, here's one. Maybe someone here can figure it out. >>> Upgrading from 4.5 to 4.5. From a 4.6 ISO I copied all the RPMs into a >>> directory... let's call it c:/install :). Now the oracle db

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

On Oct 21, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Chan Chung Hang Christopher schrieb: >> >> I suspect so. After all, it is just seen as a disk as far as md is >> concerned and it will do the same normal thing if you unplugged a >> single >> disk from the array. >> > > > But the latency ov

Re: [CentOS] rpm --freshen issue (was: Re: Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS)

Gotcha. :) Sorry about that. :) -- David Fix - Original Message - From: kfis...@lakelandcc.edu To: "CentOS mailing list" Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:53:31 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] rpm --freshen issue (was: Re: Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS) The problem with suc

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

Rainer Duffner wrote: > Chan Chung Hang Christopher schrieb: > >> I suspect so. After all, it is just seen as a disk as far as md is >> concerned and it will do the same normal thing if you unplugged a single >> disk from the array. >> >> > > > But the latency over the net is much high

[CentOS] R: Rescan for new geometry without reboot?

Hello, I must say I've not still tryed, but with fdisk you can change number of cilinders to set to new size (you must calculate it), and with partprobe (man partprobe) you can reread online "partition table"; now, since kernel gets disk geometry and partition table at boot time, and this com

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Jonathan Moore wrote: > Thanks for the input folks.  I think I see now that it's going to be a > pretty easy going process, and I don't need to screw around with crazy > update processes.  Very good to know. The documentation here should apply to some extent: h

Re: [CentOS] rpm --freshen issue

ken wrote, On 10/21/2009 05:12 AM: > On 10/20/2009 12:15 PM Benjamin Franz wrote: >> ken wrote: >>> >>> Yeah, this directory contains 1507 rpms (IIRC)... which is a lot, but it >>> should still work. This is Linux, after all. And there's plenty enough >>> memory and cpu to handle it. >>> >> R

[CentOS] sendmail question

Hi all, I have a local user account call "panel" on a machine. When I use the mail command to manually send email to the panel account it over 1 minute until that mail actually deposited in the mail account. What setting is that reduces this time? I changed /etc/sysconfig/sendmail the QUEUE=10s

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a local user account call "panel" on a machine. > When I use the mail command to manually send email to the panel account > it over 1 minute until that mail actually deposited in the mail account. > > What setting is that reduces this time? > > I changed /etc/

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

Ross Walker wrote: > On Oct 21, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Rainer Duffner > wrote: > >> Chan Chung Hang Christopher schrieb: >>> I suspect so. After all, it is just seen as a disk as far as md is >>> concerned and it will do the same normal thing if you unplugged a >>> single >>> disk from the array.

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

> Hi there folks.  I've been watching the never ending "CentOS 5.4 OMG > WHEN?" threads for the last few days / weeks and had a question.  I'm > pretty new to anything rpm based.  I used Red Hat 9 back in college, > but that's about it.  Currently, I do have a few Cent OS servers and > we're slowly

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

OK, I've never done an upgrade before either, so I go to this URL : > http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.4/#head-29511ff6659f6463d444feb92326ed2232fc8c08 And I execute these commands yum clean all yum update glibc\* yum update yum\* rpm\* python\* yum clean all yum update shutdo

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a local user account call "panel" on a machine. > When I use the mail command to manually send email to the panel account > it over 1 minute until that mail actually deposited in the mail account. > > What setting is that reduces this time? > > I changed /e

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

Alan McKay wrote: > OK, I've never done an upgrade before either, so I go to this URL : > >> http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.4/#head-29511ff6659f6463d444feb92326ed2232fc8c08 > > And I execute these commands > > yum clean all > yum update glibc\* > yum update yum\* rpm\* pytho

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

On Wednesday 21 October 2009 14:46:05 Robert Heller wrote: > Yes. Generally, doing yum update or yum upgrade will pick up new point > releases as they become available. *Sometimes* you need to do something > special (the 5.2 to 5.3 update required an upgrade of glibc on its own > before the main

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

> it will work when your mirror has 5.4 ahhh, OK. What if my mirror is the same box? Will that work too? I cannot see any reason from here why it would not. I keep a local mirror on my desktop (the box in question) and am just bringing down 5.4 now, with rsync thanks, -Alan -- “Don't eat

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

Alan McKay wrote: >> it will work when your mirror has 5.4 > > ahhh, OK. What if my mirror is the same box? Will that work too? > I cannot see any reason from here why it would not. > > I keep a local mirror on my desktop (the box in question) and am just > bringing down 5.4 now, with rsync

[CentOS] Low End NAS hardware.

Hey, The recent discussion on NAS/SAN and the Thecus N8800 got me to thinking. Bit of background. I have an old Dual Athlon MP2800+ that I'm using for a home web/file server. It runs fine but between the noise of the various fans and it's location in the living room, I've been asked by my spouse

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

> Say, I had 4 devices with 500 GB drives exported using iSCSI. If a > single larger server > took those four iSCSI export drives, and created one md RAID 5 device, > could a single > server be turned off, and just degrade the array until it was either > replaced entirely > or brought back online

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

Les Mikesell wrote: > Jerry Geis wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have a local user account call "panel" on a machine. >> When I use the mail command to manually send email to the panel account >> it over 1 minute until that mail actually deposited in the mail account. >> >> What setting is that redu

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Matt wrote: > Just curious, why the move from Debian to CentOS? There is very little in the way of technical reasoning for it. Mostly it was a call by those in charge. We still have several servers running Debian doing various network related tasks. DNS and mai

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

John R Pierce wrote: >> Say, I had 4 devices with 500 GB drives exported using iSCSI. If a >> single larger server >> took those four iSCSI export drives, and created one md RAID 5 device, >> could a single >> server be turned off, and just degrade the array until it was either >> replaced entirel

Re: [CentOS] Console priority

Jonathan Moore wrote: > Spent a few minutes looking at the the archive at gmane.org and found one > post that might be of interest. It's from back in 2006, but a quick read > seems > to be on the same track. HTH. > > > Tha

Re: [CentOS] Low End NAS hardware.

Drew wrote: > Hey, > > The recent discussion on NAS/SAN and the Thecus N8800 got me to thinking. > > Bit of background. I have an old Dual Athlon MP2800+ that I'm using > for a home web/file server. It runs fine but between the noise of the > various fans and it's location in the living room, I'v

[CentOS] centos5.4 and extras

Trying to install CentOS 5.4 with Xfce and I have enabled the extras repo, but Xfce doesn't show up when I customize the software selections. Is this because 5.4 hasn't hit all of the mirrors yet, or is Xfce not around for 5.4? Ryan ___ CentOS maili

Re: [CentOS] Low End NAS hardware.

Drew schrieb: > Hey, > > The recent discussion on NAS/SAN and the Thecus N8800 got me to thinking. > > Bit of background. I have an old Dual Athlon MP2800+ that I'm using > for a home web/file server. It runs fine but between the noise of the > various fans and it's location in the living room, I'v

[CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

Hello, Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with Centos 5.3 x_64. Thank you in advance and greetings SLCC - Este mensaje y cualquier archivo que se adjunte al mismo es propiedad de Grupo Iusacell y contiene informacion privad

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

slchavar...@iusacell.com.mx wrote: > Hello, > > Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with Centos > 5.3 x_64. Just run yum update and you'll get all of the updates that you need that are available. nate ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

nate wrote: > slchavar...@iusacell.com.mx wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with Centos >> 5.3 x_64. > > Just run yum update and you'll get all of the updates that > you need that are available. Except that you'll probably end up with 5.4 or may

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

On Wednesday 21 October 2009, slchavar...@iusacell.com.mx wrote: > Hello, > > Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with Centos > 5.3 x_64. All, that is "yum update" with a standard configuration (note that "All" here includes updates all the way to 5.x latest (which, as

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

> > My guess would be a resolving problem also. > Its usually what causes sendmail to slow down. > Check your /etc/hosts file > Dan > My /etc/hosts file is only has the "nameserver x.x.x.x" entry. the /var/log/maillog shows the entry right away when "mail" on the command line is done. Again, t

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

Jerry Geis wrote: >> My guess would be a resolving problem also. >> Its usually what causes sendmail to slow down. >> Check your /etc/hosts file >> Dan >> > My /etc/hosts file is only has the "nameserver x.x.x.x" entry. That should be in /etc/resolv.conf. > the /var/log/maillog shows the entry

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 11:11 -0500, slchavar...@iusacell.com.mx wrote: > Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with > Centos 5.3 x_64. Yum knows :) $ yum --security check-update You may have to install yum-security first: # yum install yum-security .t. ___

[CentOS] 'Extremely lazy' disk flush?

Are there any good options to configure a filesystem so most activity takes place in the RAM buffer with the flush to physical media allowed to lag very far behind? OpenNMS does some data collection that keeps the disk very busy. I don't want to lose the history completely in a crash like you

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

> > Jerry Geis wrote: > >>/ My guess would be a resolving problem also. > />>/ Its usually what causes sendmail to slow down. > />>/ Check your /etc/hosts file > />>/ Dan > />>/ > />/ My /etc/hosts file is only has the "nameserver x.x.x.x" entry. > / > That should be in /etc/resolv.conf. > Yo

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

Jerry Geis wrote: > >> That's a few DNS timeouts. >> >>> / I have 127.0.0.1 localhost in the /etc/hosts file. >> />/ >> />/ Very odd, any thoughts? >> / >> Are you mailing to localhost? >> > I tried: > mail panel > mail pa...@localhost > mail pa...@localhost.localdomain > mail pa...@machine.dom

Re: [CentOS] 'Extremely lazy' disk flush?

Les Mikesell wrote: > Are there any good options to configure a filesystem so most activity > takes place in the RAM buffer with the flush to physical media allowed > to lag very far behind? OpenNMS does some data collection that keeps > the disk very busy. I don't want to lose the history comple

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

> > >/ > />>/ That's a few DNS timeouts. > />>/ > />>>/ / I have 127.0.0.1 localhost in the /etc/hosts file. > />>/ />/ > />>/ />/ Very odd, any thoughts? > />>/ / > />>/ Are you mailing to localhost? > />>/ > />/ I tried: > />/ mail panel > />/ mail panel at localhost

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

Jerry Geis wrote: > How do I make this resolve faster or something. I have no way to make an > MX record > for this box. its all just local email. it never leaves the box. have you seen http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3#3.22 ? nslookup only looks at DNS. So if you are trying to resolve some

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

Jerry Geis wrote: >> >> / >> You still haven't answered how long nslookup takes to respond with these >> or your IP addresses. I think sendmail will ask DNS for an MX record >> first because that's how mail is supposed to work - then if that fails >> it goes for an A record or your hosts file.

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

nate wrote: > Jerry Geis wrote: > >> How do I make this resolve faster or something. I have no way to make an >> MX record >> for this box. its all just local email. it never leaves the box. > > have you seen > > http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3#3.22 > > ? > > nslookup only looks at DNS. S

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

Brent L. Bates wrote: > It is not odd. You just refuse to listen to those trying to help. How > many times do they have to say `Check your DNS'? > > Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf and make sure it has a line like this: > > hosts:files dns > > `files' comes FIRST and `dns'

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

Jerry Geis wrote: >> My guess would be a resolving problem also. >> Its usually what causes sendmail to slow down. >> Check your /etc/hosts file >> Dan >> >> > My /etc/hosts file is only has the "nameserver x.x.x.x" entry. > > the /var/log/maillog shows the entry right away when "mail" on t

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

Les Mikesell wrote: > But sendmail is going to ask DNS first and if DNS fails with a timeout > instead of a quick NXDOMAIN, delivery will be slow. My reading of that FAQ says you can turn off DNS support in sendmail entirely, just use a host file. nate _

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

On 10/21/2009 11:08 PM, Torkil Zachariassen wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 11:11 -0500, slchavar...@iusacell.com.mx wrote: >> Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with >> Centos 5.3 x_64. > > Yum knows :) >$ yum --security check-update > > You may have to install yum-s

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

At Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:26:05 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > > >/ > > />>/ That's a few DNS timeouts. > > />>/ > > />>>/ / I have 127.0.0.1 localhost in the /etc/hosts file. > > />>/ />/ > > />>/ />/ Very odd, any thoughts? > > />>/ / > > />>/ Are you mailing to localhost? > > />>/

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

nate wrote: > >> But sendmail is going to ask DNS first and if DNS fails with a timeout >> instead of a quick NXDOMAIN, delivery will be slow. > > My reading of that FAQ says you can turn off DNS support in > sendmail entirely, just use a host file. But that won't fix all the other things that e

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

Dan Carl wrote: > Jerry Geis wrote: > >>> My guess would be a resolving problem also. >>> Its usually what causes sendmail to slow down. >>> Check your /etc/hosts file >>> Dan >>> >>> >>> >> My /etc/hosts file is only has the "nameserver x.x.x.x" entry. >> >> the /var/log/maillog

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

On Wednesday 21 October 2009 16:31:13 Alan McKay wrote: > > it will work when your mirror has 5.4 > > ahhh, OK. What if my mirror is the same box? Will that work too? > I cannot see any reason from here why it would not. > > I keep a local mirror on my desktop (the box in question) and am just

[CentOS] CentOS-5.3 saslauth configuration issue

I am trying to get cyrus-imapd and saslauthd running together so that I can get squirrelmail to work. I have accomplished this on several other servers and have relatively complete documentation on how to do this. What I am running into in this case has me baffled. If I start saslauthd as a serv

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

Les Mikesell wrote: > But that won't fix all the other things that expect a working DNS - and > will keep you from sending mail anywhere else. smarthost I'm not sure what the original thread started as just seemed specific to sendmail. nate ___ CentO

Re: [CentOS] Low End NAS hardware.

> What exactly does the home-server do that couldn't be done on the > clients connected to it, once they are running? Run Linux 24/7. :-) For what I do with my PC it's far safer to store my files on a seperate machine. I tend to tweak linux a lot (I run Gentoo) so breakage is a regular thing. I'v

[CentOS] Recommendation for PCI-e SATA RAID 5 card?

Hello: I am looking for a recommendation for a PCI-e RAID card for my server. The server has a PCI-e x16 low profile slot so the card has to be at most 6.6 inches long x 2.536 inches high. I would like to use RAID 5 with 3 drives so I have to have those capabilities. It has to be CentOS 5.4 com

[CentOS] [SOLVED]: CentOS-5.3 saslauth configuration issue

On Wed, October 21, 2009 15:25, James B. Byrne wrote: > I am trying to get cyrus-imapd and saslauthd running together so > that I can get squirrelmail to work. I have accomplished this on > several other servers and have relatively complete documentation on > how to do this. What I am running in

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for PCI-e SATA RAID 5 card?

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Neil Aggarwal wrote: > Hello: > > I am looking for a recommendation for a PCI-e > RAID card for my server.  The server has a > PCI-e x16 low profile slot so the card has > to be at most 6.6 inches long x 2.536 inches > high.  I would like to use RAID 5 with 3 drive

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for PCI-e SATA RAID 5 card?

On 10/22/2009 01:56 AM, Neil Aggarwal wrote: > Hello: > > I am looking for a recommendation for a PCI-e > RAID card for my server. Areca's have worked well for me over the last few years, and they have some small formfactor hba's too ( eg like being able to host a bbu in a 1U chassis. I've neve

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for PCI-e SATA RAID 5 card?

>If you have a card you are happy with, I would >appreciate a recommendation. I use the LSI's, they are pretty solid with a good cli, snmp and rhel support. Keep in mind airflow, these cards get hot without good airflow. 6.6" long, and half height? I just went and measured the 1068's I have (888

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for PCI-e SATA RAID 5 card?

Neil Aggarwal wrote: Hello: I am looking for a recommendation for a PCI-e RAID card for my server. The server has a PCI-e x16 low profile slot so the card has to be at most 6.6 inches long x 2.536 inches high. I would like to use RAID 5 with 3 drives so I have to have those capabilities. It h

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for PCI-e SATA RAID 5 card?

Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I use the LSI's, they are pretty solid with a good cli, snmp and rhel > support. Sorry to hijack, but really quick question. What cli do you use for the LSI cards? Do you have a URL? johnny ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cento

[CentOS] File Server using ISCSI attached storage - Hardware HBA ?

Hi Everyone I am looking at setting up a File Server that uses ISCSI storage. It is the first time I have done this, so I am wanting to get peoples thoughts on whether for CentOS systems you should use Hardware based ISCSI HBA's? If so do I need to be careful about what HBA I use ? Currently

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

> it will work when your mirror has 5.4 I have the same problem. Are many mirrors not updated yet? -- Yves Bellefeuille "Yves Bellefeuille: Eterna malvenkanto en UEA" -- Heroldo Komunikas, n-ro 389 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://li

Re: [CentOS] File Server using ISCSI attached storage - Hardware HBA ?

Clint Dilks wrote: > Hi Everyone > > I am looking at setting up a File Server that uses ISCSI storage. It is > the first time I have done this, so I am wanting to get peoples thoughts > on whether for CentOS systems you should use Hardware based ISCSI HBA's? > > If so do I need to be careful about

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > > it will work when your mirror has 5.4 > > I have the same problem. Are many mirrors not updated yet? > Many of them should be current since the official release just occurred. I've already seen 25 Mbps jump in traffic on the Clarkson

Re: [CentOS] File Server using ISCSI attached storage - Hardware HBA ?

nate wrote: > Clint Dilks wrote: > >> Hi Everyone >> >> I am looking at setting up a File Server that uses ISCSI storage. It is >> the first time I have done this, so I am wanting to get peoples thoughts >> on whether for CentOS systems you should use Hardware based ISCSI HBA's? >> >> If so do

Re: [CentOS] File Server using ISCSI attached storage - Hardware HBA ?

Clint Dilks wrote: > Hi, Thanks for the response. > > At the moment I'm not exactly sure what ISCSI storage will be bought, > but hopefully something like > http://www1.ap.dell.com/nz/en/business/storage/equallogic-ps4000-series/ct.aspx?refid=equallogic-ps4000-series&s=bsd&cs=nzbsd1 Don't know wh

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

On Wednesday 21 October 2009 18:01, Mathew S. McCarrell wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > > > I have the same problem. Are many mirrors not updated yet? > > Many of them should be current since the official release just > occurred. I've already seen 25 Mbps jum

Re: [CentOS] File Server using ISCSI attached storage - Hardware HBA ?

nate wrote: > Clint Dilks wrote: > > >> Hi, Thanks for the response. >> >> At the moment I'm not exactly sure what ISCSI storage will be bought, >> but hopefully something like >> http://www1.ap.dell.com/nz/en/business/storage/equallogic-ps4000-series/ct.aspx?refid=equallogic-ps4000-series&s=bsd

Re: [CentOS] rpm --freshen issue

On 10/21/2009 10:03 AM Barry Brimer wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, ken wrote: > >> On 10/20/2009 12:15 PM Benjamin Franz wrote: >>> ken wrote: Okay, here's one. Maybe someone here can figure it out. Upgrading from 4.5 to 4.5. From a 4.6 ISO I copied all the RPMs into a directory

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

On Oct 21, 2009, at 11:43 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > >> Say, I had 4 devices with 500 GB drives exported using iSCSI. If a >> single larger server >> took those four iSCSI export drives, and created one md RAID 5 >> device, >> could a single >> server be turned off, and just degrade the array

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

On Oct 21, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Ross Walker wrote: >> On Oct 21, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Rainer Duffner >> wrote: >> >>> Chan Chung Hang Christopher schrieb: I suspect so. After all, it is just seen as a disk as far as md is concerned and it will do the same normal thin

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