Re: [CentOS] server version on laptop

2010-12-18 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/17/10 11:58 PM, Johan Scheepers wrote: > Good day, > > What can I expect if I should install a server version of a distro on my > laptop, please. that would depend on what the distro is, and what qualifies this 'server version' as such. for installing centos, which is often considered to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 Sofware RAID1

2010-12-18 Thread Matt
> I have the CentOS 5.5 install DVD and trying to install with software > RAID1 on two 2TB SATA drives.  The CentOS install only sees one drive. >  This is a Supermicro motherboard with fakeraid turned off in bios. > > I tried the trick like so: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=64 > dd

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-18 Thread Gerhard Schneider
The problem with VMWare Server is that it is a discontinued product for longer time and they don't provide us with a suitable replacement. So our institute had to switch to VMWare workstation that can be run as a server, too. I'm running CentOS 5.5 as the Host OS and 5.5 and RHEL6beta as guests.

Re: [CentOS] server version on laptop

2010-12-18 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Johan Scheepers wrote on Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:58:50 +0200: You can expect a server version of a distro on your laptop. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://li

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 Sofware RAID1

2010-12-18 Thread Arun Khan
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Matt wrote: > > I have the CentOS 5.5 install DVD and trying to install with software > > RAID1 on two 2TB SATA drives. The CentOS install only sees one drive. > > This is a Supermicro motherboard with fakeraid turned off in bios. > > > > I tried the trick like

Re: [CentOS] server version on laptop

2010-12-18 Thread ken
On 12/18/2010 04:31 AM Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Johan Scheepers wrote on Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:58:50 +0200: > > You can expect a server version of a distro on your laptop. > > > > Kai Kai, You took the words right out of my mouth. I've been running several server apps (mail, web, ldap, cups, and

Re: [CentOS] server version on laptop

2010-12-18 Thread Johan Scheepers
John R Pierce wrote: > On 12/17/10 11:58 PM, Johan Scheepers wrote: >> Good day, >> >> What can I expect if I should install a server version of a distro on my >> laptop, please. > > that would depend on what the distro is, and what qualifies this 'server > version' as such. for installing cent

Re: [CentOS] server version on laptop

2010-12-18 Thread Johan Scheepers
ken wrote: > On 12/18/2010 04:31 AM Kai Schaetzl wrote: >> Johan Scheepers wrote on Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:58:50 +0200: >> >> You can expect a server version of a distro on your laptop. >> >> >> >> Kai > > Kai, > > You took the words right out of my mouth. I've been running several > server apps (m

Re: [CentOS] server version on laptop

2010-12-18 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Johan Scheepers wrote: > Good day, > > What can I expect if I should install a server version of a distro on my > laptop, please. I'm running CentOS 5.5 on a Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop. No real issues, but some caveats: 1) Getting the multi-media keys to work too

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 Sofware RAID1

2010-12-18 Thread Ryan Wagoner
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Matt wrote: >> I have the CentOS 5.5 install DVD and trying to install with software >> RAID1 on two 2TB SATA drives.  The CentOS install only sees one drive. >>  This is a Supermicro motherboard with fakeraid turned off in bios. >> >> I tried the trick like so: >>

Re: [CentOS] Best way to set up for PHP websites

2010-12-18 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 18.12.2010 um 02:12 schrieb Ruslan Sivak: > Is there a how-to somewhere on getting php running with nginx? I > would love to get that working. > You need to compile php with fpm support. Then, in nginx, you basically say: server { listen *:80; server_name

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-18 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, December 18, 2010 04:19:25 am Gerhard Schneider wrote: > The problem with VMWare Server is that it is a discontinued product for > longer time and they don't provide us with a suitable replacement. VMware wants more people to get hooked on vSphere, so their 'suggested' VMware GSX^H^H

[CentOS] cobbler fails to recognize semanage rules

2010-12-18 Thread bluethundr
I am having a bit of trouble setting up cobbler on this machine. cobbler check points out a few things to correct: [r...@virtcent04:~]#cobbler check The following are potential configuration items that you may want to fix: 1 : you need to set some SELinux content rules to ensure cobbler serves

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/18/10 3:19 AM, Gerhard Schneider wrote: > > The problem with VMWare Server is that it is a discontinued product for > longer time and they don't provide us with a suitable replacement. Do you need something that the 1.x series won't do? If something works and serves your purpose it doesn't

Re: [CentOS] two cents or not two cents

2010-12-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/18/10 1:25 AM, cpol...@surewest.net wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > > > >> To overgeneralize, that's one of the big differences between free and >> commercial software. Commercial software that has a customer base >> that they can't afford to lose will rarely break backwards >> compatibility

Re: [CentOS] Best way to set up for PHP websites

2010-12-18 Thread Keith Roberts
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, John R Pierce wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: John R Pierce > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Best way to set up for PHP websites > > On 12/17/10 9:30 AM, Cia Watson wrote: >> I've never actually configured php, I just install the files (including >> php-mbstring), and creat

Re: [CentOS] google chrome "big brother"

2010-12-18 Thread Sven Aluoor
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 6:42 PM, S Mathias wrote: > Google Chrome Terms of Service(Google Chrome executable), BSD (source code > and Chromium executable except chromium 5 beta), Please don't send HTML formated mails. Thanks. > BSD License with proprietary parts (source code and chromium 5 beta

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-18 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Saturday, December 18, 2010 04:19:25 am Gerhard Schneider wrote: > So I'm very seriously considering transitioning from VI3 to CentOS 6 KVM; for > my situation it might be doable, but I have a lot to learn about KVM > before I ca

Re: [CentOS] two cents or not two cents

2010-12-18 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 12/18/2010 08:12 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Apple is not really a software company. Everything you buy from them is > tied/bundled with hardware. I think their goal in updating software is always > to force you to buy new hardware. +2000 :) -- Benjamin Franz _

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-18 Thread Keith Roberts
Hi all. I have downloaded the source rpm for qps fc6, but get the following error message: [rpmbuil...@karsites qps]$ ls qps-1.9.18.6-1.fc6.src.rpm [rpmbuil...@karsites qps]$ rpm -K qps-1.9.18.6-1.fc6.src.rpm qps-1.9.18.6-1.fc6.src.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#1ac70c

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-18 Thread Tim Dunphy
gpg --import-key yourkey.asc done! Sent from my iPhone On Dec 18, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: > Hi all. > > I have downloaded the source rpm for qps fc6, but get the > following error message: > > [rpmbuil...@karsites qps]$ ls > qps-1.9.18.6-1.fc6.src.rpm > [rpmbuil...@karsites q

Re: [CentOS] server version on laptop

2010-12-18 Thread Rob Kampen
Johan Scheepers wrote: Good day, What can I expect if I should install a server version of a distro on my laptop, please. Thanks Johan Hi Johan, Pretty much the same as installing it on any other system. I run CentOS on multiple servers at home and my small business (5 last count) as we

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-18 Thread Peter Larsen
Have you considered looking into redhat enterprise virtualization? If you are interested I can put you in touch with a redhat rhev representative? Lamar Owen wrote: >On Saturday, December 18, 2010 04:19:25 am Gerhard Schneider wrote: >> The problem with VMWare Server is that it is a discontinue

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-18 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, December 18, 2010 02:56:12 pm Peter Larsen wrote: > Have you considered looking into redhat enterprise virtualization? If you are > interested I can put you in touch with a redhat rhev representative? Yes, I have. It's not in the budget right now using the current Red Hat pricing m

Re: [CentOS] two cents or not two cents

2010-12-18 Thread Sean
Les Mikesell wrote: > On > 12/17/10 2:12 PM, Sean wrote: >> Interesting, and probably worth a play with indeed, although I tend to >> steer clear of Bash (unhappy with) whenever possible to do the same in >> Perl (happy with). I imagine there is machine level stuff involved that >> would rule ou

Re: [CentOS] two cents or not two cents

2010-12-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/18/10 3:24 PM, Sean wrote: > >> >> Or, you might move to java for a more self-contained, OS/distribution >> independent way of doing things. >> > Why Perl? Because writing/maintaining 20,000 lines of terse Perl code is > manageable, whereas the equivalent 200,000+ in Java ruled itself out at

[CentOS] Disk array format for CentOS virtual host

2010-12-18 Thread Chuck Munro
Hello List Members (and Holiday greetings!) This rambles a bit ... my apologies in advance. I am in the process of building a large CentOS-based VM host machine which will replace several individual boxes. I've done the usual hardware research and ended up with a SuperMicro motherboard, dual

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-18 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010, Tim Dunphy wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Tim Dunphy > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD > > gpg --import-key yourkey.asc > > done! > > Sent from my iPhone Thanks for your reply Tim. It still does not work though. [rpmbuil...@karsites qps]$

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-18 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 18, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Saturday, December 18, 2010 04:19:25 am Gerhard Schneider wrote: >> The problem with VMWare Server is that it is a discontinued product for >> longer time and they don't provide us with a suitable replacement. > > VMware wants more people to g

[CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-18 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010, Keith Roberts wrote: >> gpg --import-key yourkey.asc > Thanks for your reply Tim. It still does not work though. > [rpmbuil...@karsites qps]$ gpg --import > Fedora6-GPG-public-key.asc > [rpmbuil...@karsites qps]$ rpm -K qps-1.9.18.6-1.fc6.src.rpm > qps-1.9.18.6-1.fc6.src.rp

[CentOS] VPN for iPad

2010-12-18 Thread Ed Warner
What is the best VPN solution for both PC and iPad? I was told that OpenVPN won't work for iPad. Ed Warner ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-18 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Peter Larsen wrote: > Have you considered looking into redhat enterprise virtualization? If you are > interested I can put you in touch with a redhat rhev representative? I've looked at it, though not extensively. Given the difficulties I encountered with KVM, it

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-18 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > There is XenServer from Citrix and I think there is a community version too. > > -Ross I'd welcome your opinion. I did a bunch of integration with CentOS/RHEL 4 with the older, open source Xen utilities. __