Re: [CentOS] Disable sendmail and configure mailx to use an external Postfix server?

2010-06-15 Thread Niki Kovacs
Dan Burkland a écrit : > Is there anyway I can disable sendmail on my various machines and configure > mailx on them to utilize my Postfix SMTP server? CentOS contains an utility to do just that. # yum install postfix system-switch-mail # system-switch-mail --> replace Sendmail by Postfix Tha

[CentOS] rpm - diff and patch updating

2010-06-15 Thread Frank Cox
I am attempting to create a rpm of the latest version of a program. The rpm for the previous version contains a number of patch files that make numerous changes various files in the tar.gz as downloaded from the project's website so it will work properly on Linux. The latest version of the progra

Re: [CentOS] libcucul.so.0 is needed by package xine-0.99.5-1.el5.rf.i386 (installed)

2010-06-15 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Ed Westphal wrote: > I'm getting the following dependency problem. Please advise how to resolve. > Running 5.5 with latest kernel and all updates. Tried getting this one to > update and can't - what am I missing? known problem, see the rpmforge users list. It's being worked on. Current solution: d

Re: [CentOS] Disable sendmail and configure mailx to use an external Postfix server?

2010-06-15 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 15.06.2010 09:08, schrieb Niki Kovacs: > Dan Burkland a écrit : >> Is there anyway I can disable sendmail on my various machines and configure >> mailx on them to utilize my Postfix SMTP server? > > CentOS contains an utility to do just that. > > # yum install postfix system-switch-mail > >

[CentOS] How to measure file transfer speed?

2010-06-15 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All I have one centos server equipped with WiFi . I want to measure data rate speed on this connection . Is there any utility on my centos that can measure data speed on one specific Ethernet connection when transferring large size files through WiFi connection? Thank you _

Re: [CentOS] How to measure file transfer speed?

2010-06-15 Thread francis mendoza
use iptraf On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:09 PM, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > I have one centos server equipped with WiFi . I want to measure data rate > speed on this connection . Is there any utility on my centos that can > measure data speed on one specific Ethernet connection when transferri

Re: [CentOS] How to measure file transfer speed?

2010-06-15 Thread Alexander Dalloz
> Dear All > I have one centos server equipped with WiFi . I want to measure data rate > speed on this connection . Is there any utility on my centos that can > measure data speed on one specific Ethernet connection when transferring > large size files through WiFi connection? > Thank you rpmforge

Re: [CentOS] How to measure file transfer speed?

2010-06-15 Thread John R Pierce
hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > I have one centos server equipped with WiFi . I want to measure data > rate speed on this connection . Is there any utility on my centos that > can measure data speed on one specific Ethernet connection when > transferring large size files through WiFi connectio

Re: [CentOS] rpm - diff and patch updating

2010-06-15 Thread John Doe
From: Frank Cox > ... some of the files that need to be patched have > had some stuff moved around a bit, just enough > to (apparently) cause patch to fail... > ... By way of experimentation, I manually changed one of the files > ... is there a way to automate the process... I am afraid patch is

Re: [CentOS] How to measure file transfer speed?

2010-06-15 Thread hadi motamedi
transfer a file, time it, divide file size in megabytes / seconds to get > MB/sec speeds. multiply by 8 or 10 to get approximate backbone speed in > megabit/sec. (10 approximates protocol overhead) > > > ___ > Thank you very much. I got the point. __

Re: [CentOS] Cacti/snmp question

2010-06-15 Thread John Doe
From: Whit Blauvelt > Should be useful when I extend our Nagios monitoring to include snmp data. > We're using Nagios extensively, but it doesn't seem suited to the sort of > load graphing we need for our CPU cores - or if it is it's a side of Nagios > I'm unfamiliar with (which could be, it's nic

Re: [CentOS] How to measure file transfer speed?

2010-06-15 Thread John Doe
From: hadi motamedi >I have one centos server equipped with WiFi . I want to measure data rate >speed on this connection . Is there any utility on my centos that can measure >data speed on one specific Ethernet connection when transferring large size >files through WiFi connection? As in (file

Re: [CentOS] How to measure file transfer speed?

2010-06-15 Thread Cliff
Iptraf is a great utility Sent from my iPhone On Jun 15, 2010, at 5:45 AM, hadi motamedi wrote: > > > transfer a file, time it, divide file size in megabytes / seconds to > get > MB/sec speeds. multiply by 8 or 10 to get approximate backbone > speed in > megabit/sec. (10 approximates proto

[CentOS] IBM ServeRAID M5014 and CentOS 5.5

2010-06-15 Thread Peter Hinse
Hi all, we are about to buy some IBM x3550 M2 servers with ServeRAID M5014 SAS onboard controller. Can anyone confirm that these controllers will work with CentOS 5.5 (seems to be some rebranded LSI controller). I cannot find any hint in the 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 sources... Regards, Peter

Re: [CentOS] IBM ServeRAID M5014 and CentOS 5.5

2010-06-15 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 06/15/2010 01:45 PM, Peter Hinse wrote: > Hi all, > > we are about to buy some IBM x3550 M2 servers with ServeRAID M5014 SAS > onboard controller. Can anyone confirm that these controllers will work > with CentOS 5.5 (seems to be some rebranded LSI controller). According to: http://www.redbook

Re: [CentOS] IBM ServeRAID M5014 and CentOS 5.5

2010-06-15 Thread Jens Neu
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/technotes/tips0738.pdf clearly states Support for RHEL 4 as well as 5, so you should have no problem with CentOS 5.5. regards Jens Neu Peter Hinse Sent by: centos-boun...@centos.org 06/15/2010 01:46 PM Please respond to CentOS mailing list To CentOS mailing li

Re: [CentOS] Disable sendmail and configure mailx to use an external Postfix server?

2010-06-15 Thread Les Mikesell
Dan Burkland wrote: > Is there anyway I can disable sendmail on my various machines and configure > mailx on them to utilize my Postfix SMTP server? > You might, but I'd leave sendmail in its default configuration of only accepting connections from localhost because a lot of other programs

Re: [CentOS] IBM ServeRAID M5014 and CentOS 5.5

2010-06-15 Thread Peter Hinse
Am 15.06.2010 13:55, schrieb Mogens Kjaer: >> we are about to buy some IBM x3550 M2 servers with ServeRAID M5014 SAS >> onboard controller. Can anyone confirm that these controllers will work >> with CentOS 5.5 (seems to be some rebranded LSI controller). > > According to: > > http://www.redbook

Re: [CentOS] How to measure file transfer speed?

2010-06-15 Thread Les Mikesell
hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > I have one centos server equipped with WiFi . I want to measure data > rate speed on this connection . Is there any utility on my centos that > can measure data speed on one specific Ethernet connection when > transferring large size files through WiFi connectio

[CentOS] rpm - diff and patch updating

2010-06-15 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Frank Cox wrote: > By way of experimentation, I manually changed one of the files in the > new version to match what the patch says it should be, then created a > new patch file from that and it applies and appears to work fine. (I > patched the previous version's file, compa

Re: [CentOS] rpm - diff and patch updating

2010-06-15 Thread Les Mikesell
Frank Cox wrote: > I am attempting to create a rpm of the latest version of a program. The > rpm for the previous version contains a number of patch files that make > numerous changes various files in the tar.gz as downloaded from the > project's website so it will work properly on Linux. > > The

[CentOS] how to set up pam_oddjob_mkhomedir (samba and ldap)?

2010-06-15 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator
Hi, I do have a samba server up and running and users are authenticated by ldap. Login to the samba server works as long as the user has a home directory. Now if I create a new ldap entry for an user I'd like to use pam_oddjob_mkhomedir to create a home directory if it dose not exist on login.

Re: [CentOS] Disable sendmail and configure mailx to use an external Postfix server?

2010-06-15 Thread Steven Tardy
Dan Burkland wrote: > Is there anyway I can disable sendmail on my various machines and configure > mailx on them to utilize my Postfix SMTP server? leave sendmail there and in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc add the line: FEATURE(`nullclient', `smtp.server.example.com')dnl restart sendmail nullclient wi

Re: [CentOS] Cacti/snmp question

2010-06-15 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 03:31:42AM -0700, John Doe wrote: > You could just use PNP and a custom script... > http://docs.pnp4nagios.org/ PNP looks like a great project, when it matures. Someday it will be the obvious answer, once someone writes a Nagios plugin that captures per-core CPU load rathe

Re: [CentOS] How to measure file transfer speed?

2010-06-15 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:45:58 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > hadi motamedi wrote: > > Dear All > > I have one centos server equipped with WiFi . I want to measure data > > rate speed on this connection . Is there any utility on my centos that > > can measure data speed on one specific Et

Re: [CentOS] Cacti/snmp question

2010-06-15 Thread Simon Billis
From: Whit Blauvelt >> Should be useful when I extend our Nagios monitoring to include snmp >> data. We're using Nagios extensively, but it doesn't seem suited to the >> sort of load graphing we need for our CPU cores - or if it is it's a >> side of Nagios I'm unfamiliar with (which could be, it's

Re: [CentOS] rpm - diff and patch updating

2010-06-15 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 02:44 -0700, John Doe wrote: > I am afraid patch is not able to auto-magicaly adapt an old patch to a > heavily modified file... That's what I was afraid of. I was hoping, however, that there might be some way to verify that everything in the patch has now been done in the

Re: [CentOS] rpm - diff and patch updating

2010-06-15 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 08:55 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: > > First, am I going about this the right way? > > no -- Usually one unrolls the old tree, applies the patches to > the old; and then unrolls the new in a directory 'next to' the > first, and diffs from a point above the top of each What w

[CentOS] rpm - diff and patch updating

2010-06-15 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Frank Cox wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 08:55 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: >>> First, am I going about this the right way? >> >> no -- Usually one unrolls the old tree, applies the patches to >> the old; and then unrolls the new in a directory 'next to' the >> first, and diffs f

Re: [CentOS] rpm - diff and patch updating

2010-06-15 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 12:17 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: > The point is to see where changes are happening, and to be > able to cherry pick in a migration toward the latest [but > being able to spot the deltas from the prior version], which, > as I understood it, was your goal I can see that. Ho

[CentOS] rpm - diff and patch updating

2010-06-15 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Frank Cox wrote: > A single monolithic diff of the entire tree would lose this functional > separation of the patches, and it would be a lot more maintainable and > understandable into the future if I could retain that instead. time for training of that Mk I eyeball ;) some

Re: [CentOS] rpm - diff and patch updating

2010-06-15 Thread Todd Denniston
Frank Cox wrote, On 06/15/2010 11:51 AM: > On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 02:44 -0700, John Doe wrote: >> I am afraid patch is not able to auto-magicaly adapt an old patch to a >> heavily modified file... > > That's what I was afraid of. I was hoping, however, that there might be > some way to verify that

Re: [CentOS] rpm - diff and patch updating

2010-06-15 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 13:06 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote: > Where did the original SRPM come from? rpmfusion. > What was it of/for? vice-2.1-3.src.rpm > Does the original source repository/group exist anymore? > ... someone else may have already been here with the product you are > looking at.

[CentOS] cyrus-imapd, sendmail and delivering plus address formats

2010-06-15 Thread James B. Byrne
CentOS-4.8 cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-10 sendmail-8.13.1-3.3 I have a mail hub which uses cyrus-imap with sendmail It has worked well for us on this and prior hosts going back to 1995. And, I do not have a problem with the current setup. What I would like to do however, is to deliver plus-formatted e-m

Re: [CentOS] Cacti/snmp question

2010-06-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/15/2010 9:04 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 03:31:42AM -0700, John Doe wrote: > >> You could just use PNP and a custom script... >> http://docs.pnp4nagios.org/ > > PNP looks like a great project, when it matures. Someday it will be the > obvious answer, once someone writes

[CentOS] Remote X connection to CentOS 5.5 using Xming -ac

2010-06-15 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, I've rented a dedicated root server (SR7 at strato.de) and would like to run qemu at it, but get the error: # qemu -hda install.img -cdrom install47.iso -boot d Could not initialize SDL - exiting It seems that I have to establish X connection, so I've installed Xming at my WinXP laptop

Re: [CentOS] Remote X connection to CentOS 5.5 using Xming -ac

2010-06-15 Thread Brian Mathis
If you setup X11 forwarding in PuTTY, then double-click on a saved putty session, it will clear out the X11 forwarding and use the settings from the saved session (no X forwarding). If X forwarding is properly enabled, you should not have to set the DISPLAY variable on the remote side. You don't

Re: [CentOS] Remote X connection to CentOS 5.5 using Xming -ac

2010-06-15 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello Brian, On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: > If you setup X11 forwarding in PuTTY, then double-click on a saved > putty session, it will clear out the X11 forwarding and use the > settings from the saved session (no X forwarding).  If X forwarding is > properly enabled, you

Re: [CentOS] Remote X connection to CentOS 5.5 using Xming -ac

2010-06-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/15/2010 2:10 PM, Alexander Farber wrote: > Hello, > > I've rented a dedicated root server (SR7 at strato.de) > and would like to run qemu at it, but get the error: > > # qemu -hda install.img -cdrom install47.iso -boot d > Could not initialize SDL - exiting > > It seems that I have to esta

Re: [CentOS] cyrus-imapd, sendmail and delivering plus address formats

2010-06-15 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 15.06.2010 20:55, schrieb James B. Byrne: > CentOS-4.8 > cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-10 > sendmail-8.13.1-3.3 > > I have a mail hub which uses cyrus-imap with sendmail It has worked > well for us on this and prior hosts going back to 1995. And, I do > not have a problem with the current setup. > > W

Re: [CentOS] Remote X connection to CentOS 5.5 using Xming -ac

2010-06-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/15/2010 2:32 PM, Alexander Farber wrote: > Hello Brian, > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: >> If you setup X11 forwarding in PuTTY, then double-click on a saved >> putty session, it will clear out the X11 forwarding and use the >> settings from the saved session (no X fo

Re: [CentOS] Remote X connection to CentOS 5.5 using Xming -ac

2010-06-15 Thread Alexander Farber
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Is something in your .profile or .bashrc clearing your DISPLAY variable? >  When I log in with putty with the X forwarding box checked I get a > DISPLAY variable set automatically (you can see it with 'env') that > isn't set when I don't check

Re: [CentOS] cyrus-imapd, sendmail and delivering plus address formats

2010-06-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/15/2010 1:55 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: > CentOS-4.8 > cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-10 > sendmail-8.13.1-3.3 > > I have a mail hub which uses cyrus-imap with sendmail It has worked > well for us on this and prior hosts going back to 1995. And, I do > not have a problem with the current setup. > > What

Re: [CentOS] Remote X connection to CentOS 5.5 using Xming -ac

2010-06-15 Thread Alexander Farber
grep -rw DISPLAY /etc/ doesn't set anything either... So, when connecting via SSH/PuTTY, then the DISPLAy should be set to localhost:10.0 by SSH, correct? Regards Alex On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Alexander Farber wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Is someth

[CentOS] yum force

2010-06-15 Thread m . roth
I'm trying to do an update to some servers... and they have both i386 and x86_64 perl. The latter won't update, because the idiotic *man pages* are dups. Is there *any* way, short of using rpm directly with a --force, to get yum to ignore the dups and do the update? And why does *anyone* make it s

Re: [CentOS] Remote X connection to CentOS 5.5 using Xming -ac

2010-06-15 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Alexander Farber wrote: > Hello Brian, > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: >> If you setup X11 forwarding in PuTTY, then double-click on a saved >> putty session, it will clear out the X11 forwarding and use the >> settings from the saved sess

Re: [CentOS] Remote X connection to CentOS 5.5 using Xming -ac

2010-06-15 Thread Bowie Bailey
Alexander Farber wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> Is something in your .profile or .bashrc clearing your DISPLAY variable? >> When I log in with putty with the X forwarding box checked I get a >> DISPLAY variable set automatically (you can see it with 'env') t

Re: [CentOS] Remote X connection to CentOS 5.5 using Xming -ac

2010-06-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/15/2010 2:56 PM, Alexander Farber wrote: > grep -rw DISPLAY /etc/ > > doesn't set anything either... > > So, when connecting via SSH/PuTTY, > then the DISPLAy should be set to localhost:10.0 by SSH, correct? Yes - that's mostly magic done by sshd when the client requests forwarding. I thi

Re: [CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-15 Thread Don MacAskill
I'm happy to help in some way, too. We have barebones CentOS 5 images we've been using in EC2 for a long time, and our process for initially creating them is fairly well documented, so holler if I can help. Thanks, Don On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 11/06/2010 16:

Re: [CentOS] rpm - diff and patch updating

2010-06-15 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 12:17 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: > The point is to see where changes are happening, and to be > able to cherry pick in a migration toward the latest [but > being able to spot the deltas from the prior version], which, > as I understood it, was your goal I just found the sl

Re: [CentOS] libcucul.so.0 is needed by package xine-0.99.5-1.el5.rf.i386 (installed)

2010-06-15 Thread Ed Westphal
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Ed Westphal wrote: I'm getting the following dependency problem. Please advise how to resolve. Running 5.5 with latest kernel and all updates. Tried getting this one to update and can't - what am I missing? known problem, see the rpmforge users list. It's be

[CentOS] rpm - diff and patch updating

2010-06-15 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Frank Cox wrote: > I just found the slickest tool to compare files. > > meld > > "yum install meld" will get it for you from the epel repository. I did not know that Mr. Spock had brought that back from Vulcan; next think you know the secret of the nerve pinch will be revea

Re: [CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-15 Thread Andrei
Hello Don, I would be more than interested about CentOS on EC2. Regards, -- Andrei On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Don MacAskill wrote: > I'm happy to help in some way, too. We have barebones CentOS 5 images > we've been using in EC2 for a long time, and our process for initially > creating

Re: [CentOS] yum force

2010-06-15 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 06/16/2010 06:10 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I'm trying to do an update to some servers... and they have both i386 and > x86_64 perl. The latter won't update, because the idiotic *man pages* are > dups. Is there *any* way, short of using rpm directly with a --force, to > get yum to ignore the

Re: [CentOS] yum force

2010-06-15 Thread Gary Greene
On 6/15/10 3:26 PM, "Kahlil Hodgson" wrote: > On 06/16/2010 06:10 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> I'm trying to do an update to some servers... and they have both i386 and >> x86_64 perl. The latter won't update, because the idiotic *man pages* are >> dups. Is there *any* way, short of using rpm di

Re: [CentOS] yum force

2010-06-15 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 06/15/2010 03:26 PM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: > On 06/16/2010 06:10 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> I'm trying to do an update to some servers... and they have both i386 and >> x86_64 perl. The latter won't update, because the idiotic *man pages* are >> dups. Is there *any* way, short of using

Re: [CentOS] yum force

2010-06-15 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 06/15/2010 03:52 PM, Benjamin Franz wrote: > On 06/15/2010 03:26 PM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: > >> On 06/16/2010 06:10 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> >> >>> I'm trying to do an update to some servers... and they have both i386 and >>> x86_64 perl. The latter won't update, because the idio

Re: [CentOS] downgrade

2010-06-15 Thread Spiro Harvey
"mattias jonsson" wrote: > Or > Enter the 5.0 repo? That won't work because yum will just tell you everything is up to date. You need to either look at what broke (if anything, and the reason for your wanting to go backwards) and just back those out, or do what others have said: back up data and

Re: [CentOS] yum force

2010-06-15 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 16/06/10 08:47, Gary Greene wrote: > On 6/15/10 3:26 PM, "Kahlil Hodgson" wrote: >> Yes, this is frustrating. I've encountered it a number of times while >> packaging perl modules that override those in the core (e.g. >> Test::More). Sorry, but I've never found a really good solution beyond >

Re: [CentOS] rpm - diff and patch updating

2010-06-15 Thread Steven Vishoot
- Original Message > From: R P Herrold > To: CentOS mailing list > Sent: Tue, June 15, 2010 4:14:03 PM > Subject: [CentOS] rpm - diff and patch updating > > On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Frank Cox wrote: > I just found the slickest tool > to compare files. > > meld > > "yum install meld" w

Re: [CentOS] Remote X connection to CentOS 5.5 using Xming -ac

2010-06-15 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, I've found the solution for my problem: sudo yum install xorg-x11-xinit Once I've done that, then started Xming with -ac and PuTTY with X11 Forwarding enabled, then the variable DISPLAY got set to localhost:10 automatically and I could run X-programs Your advice with NX has worked too,