Re: [CentOS] Dovecot problems

2012-02-13 Thread Steve Campbell
On 2/12/2012 2:09 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am 12.02.2012 20:01, schrieb Steve Campbell: >> Actually, I'm having problems with pop and imap. >> >> I changed mailservers this weekend, going from a Centos 3 box to a >> Centos 6 box. The Centos 3 box used the old standard imap and pop >> servers

Re: [CentOS] Dovecot problems

2012-02-13 Thread Peter Peltonen
Hi, On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: >>> If so, does anyone have a pretty good link to how to make dovecot >>> function using the old Centos pop/imap scheme? Should I try and convert >>> the old mbox files to another format or destination to make this work? >> See http://wik

Re: [CentOS] init/upstart issue? ypbind and autofs

2012-02-13 Thread Lars Hecking
Lars Hecking writes: > Lars Hecking writes: > > > > One problem I have with custom CentOS 6 installation is that NIS auto.* > > maps are not available. According to boot.log, ypbind starts before autofs, > > but when I login to the machine, the maps are not available until I issue > > a servic

Re: [CentOS] Dovecot problems

2012-02-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Peter Peltonen wrote: >> I reviewed that quite a bit during the night. I guess I need to read up >> on dovecot's definitions, since that INBOX parameter kept throwing me. >> There really isn't an INBOX to a pop account's mbox, but there is on our >> imap scheme. S

Re: [CentOS] Dovecot problems

2012-02-13 Thread anax
did you try doveconf -n -c dovecot.old.conf > dovecot.new.conf we also use dovecot for POP as well as IMAP. we are using the maildir storage for mails (one file per one mail). no problem sofar (touch wood). suomi On 02/13/2012 01:35 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: > > > On 2/12/2012 2:09 PM, Alexan

Re: [CentOS] Sound drop out with totem. mplayer Can't open audio device /dev/dsp

2012-02-13 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Mark LaPierre wrote: > Hey all. > > This morning I found that my audio playback is randomly sprinkled with > sound skips and dropouts. I went to /var/log/yum.log and found this: > > Feb 09 20:18:22 Updated: lame-3.99.4-2.el6.rf.i686 > > I'm not saying that caused the problem but it's all I could

Re: [CentOS] Dovecot problems

2012-02-13 Thread Scott Silva
on 2/13/2012 4:35 AM Steve Campbell spake the following: > > > On 2/12/2012 2:09 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: >> Am 12.02.2012 20:01, schrieb Steve Campbell: >>> Actually, I'm having problems with pop and imap. >>> >>> I changed mailservers this weekend, going from a Centos 3 box to a >>> Centos 6 b

[CentOS] Adding Mandarin support - pointers?

2012-02-13 Thread m . roth
I've had a request from one of my users to add Mandarin support. A few quick googles gets me nothing, nor looking for "adding language support". Anyone have a pointer to info on adding whatever packages/group packages I need? Thanks in advance. mark __

Re: [CentOS] Adding Mandarin support - pointers?

2012-02-13 Thread John Doe
From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" > I've had a request from one of my users to add Mandarin support. A few > quick googles gets me nothing, nor looking for "adding language > support". > Anyone have a pointer to info on adding whatever packages/group packages I > need? Something like that? yum install "

Re: [CentOS] Dovecot problems

2012-02-13 Thread Steve Campbell
Never too late for information. Here's the situation as it stands. The original server is a Centos 3 box, and the new server is a Centos 6 box. They are separate boxes and I can move mail back and forth between the without losing any email (so far). I've got pop3 and imap logging in, but only

Re: [CentOS] Adding Mandarin support - pointers?

2012-02-13 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:25 PM, John Doe wrote: > From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" > >> I've had a request from one of my users to add Mandarin support. A few >> quick googles gets me nothing, nor looking for "adding language >> support". >> Anyone have a pointer to info on adding whatever

Re: [CentOS] Adding Mandarin support - pointers?

2012-02-13 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:34:01PM +0530, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > > Pardon my ignorance: should it be 'yum groupinstall "Chinese Support" ' ? As per "man yum" if the package to be installed starts with '@' it is interpreted as being a group name.

Re: [CentOS] Adding Mandarin support - pointers?

2012-02-13 Thread m . roth
John Doe wrote: > From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" > >> I've had a request from one of my users to add Mandarin support. A few >> quick googles gets me nothing, nor looking for "adding language >> support". >> Anyone have a pointer to info on adding whatever packages/group packages >> I need? > > Somethin

Re: [CentOS] Dovecot problems

2012-02-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Steve Campbell wrote: > Never too late for information. > > Here's the situation as it stands. The original server is a Centos 3 > box, and the new server is a Centos 6 box. They are separate boxes and I > can move mail back and forth between the without losing an

Re: [CentOS] Anyone already tried to backport the latest ASPM kernel patch to 6.2?

2012-02-13 Thread Michael Lampe
Michael Lampe wrote: > In other words: my BIOS is broken. But it's broken for all Lenovo > Notebooks. So ... It seems mine is particularly broken: The BIOS isn't even lying, it realy disables ASPM! That at least is my conclusion after looking at this https://wiki.edubuntu.org/Kernel/PowerMa

[CentOS] displaying user and group names in chroot sftp

2012-02-13 Thread James B. Byrne
I am testing a chrooted environment for sftp using the internal-sftp subsystem. Now that I seem to have SELinux mostly out of the way, when I do an 'ls -l' after the sftp login I see only numbers for the uids and gids. When I was using scponly I simply had a local version of /etc/passwd and /etc/

Re: [CentOS] init/upstart issue? ypbind and autofs

2012-02-13 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Lars Hecking writes: | > Lars Hecking writes: | > > | > > One problem I have with custom CentOS 6 installation is that NIS | > > auto.* | > > maps are not available. According to boot.log, ypbind starts | > > before autofs, | > > but when I login to the machine,

Re: [CentOS] Dovecot problems

2012-02-13 Thread Peter Peltonen
Hi, On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > If you need to convert formats or copy between machines, there is a program > called imapsync that will connect as a client to two imap servers and sync > the folder structure. You could probably also switch to cyrus if you use > that to

[CentOS] Removing All Packages From Repository

2012-02-13 Thread Matt
Is there a way to remove all packages from a certain repository such as RPMFORGE? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] bug in repo affecting perl

2012-02-13 Thread Blake Hudson
I seem to running into the following bug when attempting to perform a yum update: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5322 I have been skipping perl to move on. However, I am unable to update perl to the latest i386 release due to what appears to be a mistake in the centOS repo. The CentOS mirr

Re: [CentOS] Removing All Packages From Repository

2012-02-13 Thread Scott Silva
on 2/13/2012 12:54 PM Matt spake the following: > Is there a way to remove all packages from a certain repository such > as RPMFORGE? I have done it by something like rpm -qa|grep rf and cat the list into rpm -U... I don't have the exact incantation near me, but that will get you a start ___

Re: [CentOS] Removing All Packages From Repository

2012-02-13 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 02/13/2012 09:54 PM, Matt wrote: > Is there a way to remove all packages from a certain repository such > as RPMFORGE? yum remove $(yum list installed | grep repoforge | awk '{ print $1 }') where "repoforge" is the part of the repository name that show up in yum list -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic

Re: [CentOS] Removing All Packages From Repository

2012-02-13 Thread m . roth
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > On 02/13/2012 09:54 PM, Matt wrote: >> Is there a way to remove all packages from a certain repository such >> as RPMFORGE? > > yum remove $(yum list installed | grep repoforge | awk '{ print $1 }') > > where "repoforge" is the part of the repository name that show up i

[CentOS] MySQL/file system question

2012-02-13 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, I got a rather strange situation that I can't quite make sense of. OK, I've got a very large data file to sort (hundreds of millions of lines) and I decided to use MySQL for the purpose. I inserted the stuff into a table easily enough. Then I decided to sort it and got stuck as it

Re: [CentOS] MySQL/file system question

2012-02-13 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 16:45 -0500, Boris Epstein wrote: > Hello listmates, > I got a rather strange situation that I can't quite make sense of. OK, I've > got a very large data file to sort (hundreds of millions of lines) and I > decided to use MySQL for the purpose. I inserted the stuff into a tab

Re: [CentOS] MySQL/file system question

2012-02-13 Thread Boris Epstein
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 16:45 -0500, Boris Epstein wrote: > > Hello listmates, > > I got a rather strange situation that I can't quite make sense of. OK, > I've > > got a very large data file to sort (hundreds of millions of lines) and I

[CentOS] QEMU configuration not persistent

2012-02-13 Thread Emmett Culley
Since switching from CentOS 5.7 to CentOS 6.x I find that one of the VMs will not restart upon system reboot. I finally figured out that the video is always set to vmvga after rebooting. In addition the VM's storage always reverts back to IDE from virtio and is set to use the wro

Re: [CentOS] MySQL/file system question

2012-02-13 Thread Boris Epstein
> > > > Easy. It is using temporary files the *correct* way. > > 1. Open file > 2. Unlink file > 3. Use file > 4. Close file > > This means (a) even if the process abends the resources allocated to the > file are released and (b) an external process can't see [or modify] the > temporary file. > >

Re: [CentOS] MySQL/file system question

2012-02-13 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 17:06 -0500, Boris Epstein wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Adam Tauno Williams > wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 16:45 -0500, Boris Epstein wrote: > > > Hello listmates, > > > I got a rather strange situation that I can't quite make sense of. OK, > > I've > > > got

Re: [CentOS] MySQL/file system question

2012-02-13 Thread Boris Epstein
> > > > If the process is stopped the transaction cannot be resumed for a myriad > reasons; loss of the temporary file is a trivial concern. > > -- > System & Network Administrator [ LPI & NCLA ] > > OpenGroupware Developer > Adam

Re: [CentOS] my notes on bond, bridge, network, kvm, host and virtual so far

2012-02-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 02/07/2012 07:26 PM, Devin Reade wrote: > I had a lot of problems with the network stack on VMs, both under > VMWare ESXi and Xen where the network would just go numb. After a > lot of splunking I determined that it seemed to be related to > faulty TCP segment offload. Yeah, wow. You just jog

Re: [CentOS] MySQL/file system question

2012-02-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > > > > I haven't thought of it this way. In fact it matches with this description: > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/temporary-files.html > > I can kind of see the advantages; the disadvantages, of course, are that a > major transact

Re: [CentOS] QEMU configuration not persistent

2012-02-13 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 02/13/2012 11:18 PM, Emmett Culley wrote: > Since switching from CentOS 5.7 to CentOS 6.x I find that one of the VMs will > not restart upon system reboot. I finally figured out that the > video is always set to vmvga after rebooting. In addition the VM's storage > always reve

Re: [CentOS] QEMU configuration not persistent

2012-02-13 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, Emmett Culley wrote: > Since switching from CentOS 5.7 to CentOS 6.x I find that one of the > VMs will not restart upon system reboot. I finally figured out that > the video is always set to vmvga after rebooting. In addition the > VM's storage always reverts back to IDE

Re: [CentOS] MySQL/file system question

2012-02-13 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 02/13/2012 11:31 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: >> > In fact, I did look in /proc/{pid#}/fd and found the file names, thanks! > Coud quite figure out the size of those invisible files - but no matter, > hopefully I've got enough room. > ls -l /proc/{pid#}/fd -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the

Re: [CentOS] MySQL/file system question

2012-02-13 Thread Boris Epstein
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > On 02/13/2012 11:31 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > >> > > In fact, I did look in /proc/{pid#}/fd and found the file names, thanks! > > Coud quite figure out the size of those invisible files - but no matter, > > hopefully I've got enough ro

Re: [CentOS] oops, or how to bring a datacenter router down with one setting

2012-02-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 02/10/2012 05:54 AM, Bob Hoffman wrote: > Yea, I gave up on bonding, ended up just using eth1. But every tutorial > I found had added eth0 and eth1 as interfaces to br0, thus sharing the > bridge so to speak. Those tutorials were documenting the manner in which you can set up a transparent Lin

Re: [CentOS] QEMU configuration not persistent

2012-02-13 Thread Emmett Culley
On 02/13/2012 03:49 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, Emmett Culley wrote: > >> Since switching from CentOS 5.7 to CentOS 6.x I find that one of the >> VMs will not restart upon system reboot. I finally figured out that >> the video is always set to vmvga after rebooting. In additi

Re: [CentOS] QEMU configuration not persistent

2012-02-13 Thread Emmett Culley
On 02/13/2012 04:24 PM, Emmett Culley wrote: > On 02/13/2012 03:49 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: >> On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, Emmett Culley wrote: >> >>> Since switching from CentOS 5.7 to CentOS 6.x I find that one of the >>> VMs will not restart upon system reboot. I finally figured out that >>> the video

Re: [CentOS] MySQL/file system question

2012-02-13 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 18:59 -0500, Boris Epstein wrote: > Here we go: > [root@gala ~]# ls -l /proc/18702/fd > total 0 ... > lrwx-- 1 root root 64 Feb 13 18:58 7 -> /home/mysql/tmp/ibE0DGCO > (deleted) > lrwx-- 1 root root 64 Feb 13 18:58 8 -> > /home/mysql/mysql_data/ib_logfile0 > lrwx-

Re: [CentOS] bug in repo affecting perl

2012-02-13 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Blake Hudson wrote: > I seem to running into the following bug when attempting to perform a > yum update: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5322 > > I have been skipping perl to move on. However, I am unable to update > perl to the latest i386 release due to what appears to be a mistake in > the

Re: [CentOS] my notes on bond, bridge, network, kvm, host and virtual so far

2012-02-13 Thread Bob Hoffman
=== *Gordon Messmer* wrote On 02/07/2012 07:26 PM, Devin Reade wrote: >/ I had a lot of problems with the network stack on VMs, both under />/ VMWare ESXi and Xen where the network would just go numb. After a />/ lot of splunking I determined that it seemed