[CentOS] udev works ok in CentOS 6.x??

2012-03-13 Thread C. L. Martinez
Hi all, I have strange problem with my persistent names applied to iscsi disks. I have configured an udev rule to assign static iscsi disk names: KERNEL=="sd[a-z]", SUBSYSTEM=="block", PROGRAM="/sbin/scsi_id --whitelisted --replace-whitespace --device=/dev/$name", RESULT=="1iTGTDSK9a2c73ce654d0c

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-13 Thread Stephen Harris
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 07:48:14PM -0700, Nataraj wrote: > On 03/12/2012 02:25 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > Here's a question: is there any way to inspect an email's headers, and > > reject it if the alleged FWDN in the From:" doesn't match the oldest > > "Received: "? > That would be a good t

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed[Solution that works]

2012-03-13 Thread Bob Hoffman
*Nataraj* /Tue Mar 13 02:01:36 EDT 2012/ wrote: >On 03/12/2012 10:06 PM, Nataraj wrote: >>/ On 03/12/2012 09:08 PM, Ron Loftin wrote: />>>/ I'm going to chuck in my 2 cents worth here, as I've been using Postfix />>>/ as a first-line filter for some years now. // />pbl.spamhaus.org (dynamic IP

[CentOS] yum list installed - 3rd column

2012-03-13 Thread Tilman Schmidt
On most of the CentOS 5 machines I manage, if I run "yum list installed" the third column just says "installed" for all packages. But on one machine, some lines show instead a repo name preceded by an @ sign. Apparently the repo from which the package was installed, which would be immensely useful.

[CentOS] mkswap, lvm and bootbits sectors

2012-03-13 Thread Philippe Naudin
Hello, I am confused by a warning from mkswap : When making a swap on a LVM volume, I see the following warning : mkswap: /dev/vg_SDB1/swap_test6_64: warning: don't erase bootbits sectors on whole disk. Use -f to force. Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1048572 KiB Is it safe to use m

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-13 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 23:39 +0100, Jure Pečar wrote: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:12:13 -0400 > Bob Hoffman wrote: > > On my centos 5 server I just used sendmail with spamassassin and it > > killed a lot. Still, 100s, sometimes more made it through. Then > > thunderbird would weed out more, learned

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-13 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 12, 2012, at 5:25 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Here's a question: is there any way to inspect an email's headers, and > reject it if the alleged FWDN in the From:" doesn't match the oldest > "Received: "? That would be problematic with dual homed mail gateways that received on internal i

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-13 Thread m . roth
Ross Walker wrote: > On Mar 12, 2012, at 5:25 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Here's a question: is there any way to inspect an email's headers, and >> reject it if the alleged FWDN in the From:" doesn't match the oldest >> "Received: "? > > That would be problematic with dual homed mail gateways

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-13 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 13.03.2012 00:48, schrieb Nataraj: > I have been sucessfully using 8GB dual layer DVDs for some of my > backups/archiving and now that the price of Blu ray has come down I am > about to experiment with that. I have been writing dump format files to > the DVD's and then writing an SHA256 checksu

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-13 Thread Jure Pečar
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:53:06 -0400 Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > > Now I have set up a centos 6 box using postfix. Today I decided to try > > > to add smtpd restrictions. After a lot of reading and testing I 'seem' > > > to be doing incredible. > > I've switched to postfix back in 2001 and yes

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Jure Pečar wrote: > > >> It does seem like this should be out-of-the box on this point. > > Then add user management, webmail, webmail extensions that enable users to > manage their own settings, antispam policies, vacations, addressbooks and > whatnot. I think

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-13 Thread m . roth
Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Am 13.03.2012 00:48, schrieb Nataraj: >> I have been sucessfully using 8GB dual layer DVDs for some of my >> backups/archiving and now that the price of Blu ray has come down I am >> about to experiment with that. I have been writing dump format files to >> the DVD's and th

[CentOS] t-bird, followup

2012-03-13 Thread m . roth
Well, I updated my system late last week, and just thought to look: yes, I'm on t-bird 10.0.1, and I pull up the search messages window, and click on the dropdown... and there is NO OPTION to search the content of the messages. Maybe kmail, or maybe mutt mark _

Re: [CentOS] udev works ok in CentOS 6.x??

2012-03-13 Thread C. L. Martinez
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:30 AM, C. L. Martinez wrote: > Hi all, > >  I have strange problem with my persistent names applied to iscsi > disks. I have configured an udev rule to assign static iscsi disk > names: > > KERNEL=="sd[a-z]", SUBSYSTEM=="block", PROGRAM="/sbin/scsi_id > --whitelisted --re

[CentOS] 6.2 kernel issues

2012-03-13 Thread m . roth
A couple weeks ago, after we moved a user's home directory from a 5.7 box to 6.2, he came to complain about slowness. Unpack file from NFS-mounted directory to local disk, like /tmp, everything's normal. cd to the NFS-mounted directory, and unpack it there, and it was six to seven times slower. We

[CentOS] Upgrade to 5.8 broke sshd on IPv4

2012-03-13 Thread Mike McCarthy
I have a virtual machine on linode.com that runs dual stack IPv4 and IPv6. On Sunday I upgraded to Centos 5.8 and now I cannot connect with ssh on IPv4. I get a 'connection refused' because there is no listener on the ssh port for IPv4. It appears to work just fine for IPv6, but I cannot acces

Re: [CentOS] t-bird, followup

2012-03-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:14 AM, wrote: > Well, I updated my system late last week, and just thought to look: yes, > I'm on t-bird 10.0.1, and I pull up the search messages window, and click > on the dropdown... and there is NO OPTION to search the content of the > messages. Did yours go throug

Re: [CentOS] t-bird, followup

2012-03-13 Thread Jake Shipton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:14:30 -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Well, I updated my system late last week, and just thought to look: > yes, I'm on t-bird 10.0.1, and I pull up the search messages window, > and click on the dropdown... and there is NO OPTION to search the > content of the messages. >

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 85, Issue 5

2012-03-13 Thread centos-announce-request
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[CentOS] debugging RAM issues

2012-03-13 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I have 1 system ( Sunfire x2250 running 5.7 ) that is having issues with RAM, but I'm not sure how to debug it. And unfortunately it is not under support anymore. I started the job about 4 months ago and when I came aboard the guy who handed stuff over to me told me this issue was on

[CentOS] Filelocking and rquotad

2012-03-13 Thread Basil Kurian
Hi, Can someone give me some pointer or links to understand how Filelocking and rquotad works on NFS ? I searched a lot on google , didn't get any good articles on that. -- Regards Basil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.o

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-13 Thread Nataraj
On 03/13/2012 07:02 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Ross Walker wrote: >> On Mar 12, 2012, at 5:25 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> >>> Here's a question: is there any way to inspect an email's headers, and >>> reject it if the alleged FWDN in the From:" doesn't match the oldest >>> "Received: "? >> Th

Re: [CentOS] t-bird, followup

2012-03-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 03/13/2012 10:14 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Well, I updated my system late last week, and just thought to look: yes, > I'm on t-bird 10.0.1, and I pull up the search messages window, and click > on the dropdown... and there is NO OPTION to search the content of the > messages. > > Maybe kmail

Re: [CentOS] yum list installed - 3rd column

2012-03-13 Thread Peter Kjellström
On Tuesday 13 March 2012 13.07.52 Tilman Schmidt wrote: > On most of the CentOS 5 machines I manage, if I run "yum list > installed" the third column just says "installed" for all > packages. But on one machine, some lines show instead a repo > name preceded by an @ sign. Apparently the repo from w

Re: [CentOS] debugging RAM issues

2012-03-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > > Back about 3 months ago I took this system down and removed all the RAM, > and stuck individual chips into it and booted it, testing each chip on its > own.   At that time every single one of them worked!   But I'm about to try > this again t

Re: [CentOS] mkswap, lvm and bootbits sectors

2012-03-13 Thread Peter Kjellström
On Tuesday 13 March 2012 13.41.53 Philippe Naudin wrote: > Hello, > > I am confused by a warning from mkswap : > > When making a swap on a LVM volume, I see the following warning : > mkswap: /dev/vg_SDB1/swap_test6_64: warning: don't erase bootbits > sectors on whole disk. Use -f to force. >

Re: [CentOS] t-bird, followup

2012-03-13 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:14 AM, wrote: >> Well, I updated my system late last week, and just thought to look: yes, >> I'm on t-bird 10.0.1, and I pull up the search messages window, and >> click on the dropdown... and there is NO OPTION to search the content of the >> mess

Re: [CentOS] t-bird, followup

2012-03-13 Thread m . roth
Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 03/13/2012 10:14 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Well, I updated my system late last week, and just thought to look: yes, >> I'm on t-bird 10.0.1, and I pull up the search messages window, and >> click on the dropdown... and there is NO OPTION to search the content of the >

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed[Solution that works]

2012-03-13 Thread Nataraj
On 03/13/2012 04:21 AM, Bob Hoffman wrote: > *Nataraj* > /Tue Mar 13 02:01:36 EDT 2012/ wrote: > >> On 03/12/2012 10:06 PM, Nataraj wrote: >>> / On 03/12/2012 09:08 PM, Ron Loftin wrote: > />>>/ I'm going to chuck in my 2 cents worth here, as I've been using Postfix > />>>/ as a first-line filt

Re: [CentOS] debugging RAM issues

2012-03-13 Thread m . roth
Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > I have 1 system ( Sunfire x2250 running 5.7 ) that is having issues with > RAM, but I'm not sure how to debug it. And unfortunately it is not under > support anymore. Oy, as they say, vey. You still *might* be able to email Sun, er, Oracle support without payin

Re: [CentOS] mkswap, lvm and bootbits sectors

2012-03-13 Thread m . roth
Peter Kjellström wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2012 13.41.53 Philippe Naudin wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am confused by a warning from mkswap : >> >> When making a swap on a LVM volume, I see the following warning : >> mkswap: /dev/vg_SDB1/swap_test6_64: warning: don't erase bootbits >> sectors on

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed[Solution that works]

2012-03-13 Thread m . roth
Nataraj wrote: > In any case, I used to have very large numbers in the category you > described, but since I started doing agressive blocking with fail2ban > (matching on repeated mail delivery failures), now I just completely > block all those with IPtables, so that postfix never sees them. I ha

Re: [CentOS] t-bird, followup

2012-03-13 Thread Jake Shipton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:01:10 -0500 Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 03/13/2012 10:14 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > Well, I updated my system late last week, and just thought to look: > > yes, I'm on t-bird 10.0.1, and I pull up the search messages > > window, and click on the dropdown... and there is

Re: [CentOS] t-bird, followup

2012-03-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:11 PM, wrote: >> >> did you pick the 'sync' option for the account?  After doing that, > > No. I didn't know what it did. It very specifically mentioned improving the search capability in the dialog where you made that choice... >> mine has 'body' in the search, and y

Re: [CentOS] t-bird, followup

2012-03-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:11 PM,   wrote: >>> >>> did you pick the 'sync' option for the account?  After doing that, >> >> No. I didn't know what it did. > > It very specifically mentioned improving the search capability in the > dialog wher

Re: [CentOS] t-bird, followup

2012-03-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Jake Shipton wrote: > > Oh? I have, I found Claws to have quite advanced search, filters, > actions etc. It's one of the main reasons I switched :-) > > Here's a screenshot of claws extended search: > > http://i.imgur.com/Hmwyv.png Nothing in particular jumps out

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-13 Thread Nataraj
On 03/13/2012 08:09 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Tilman Schmidt wrote: >> Am 13.03.2012 00:48, schrieb Nataraj: >>> I have been sucessfully using 8GB dual layer DVDs for some of my >>> backups/archiving and now that the price of Blu ray has come down I am >>> about to experiment with that. I have

Re: [CentOS] t-bird, followup

2012-03-13 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:11 PM, wrote: >>> >>> did you pick the 'sync' option for the account?  After doing that, >> >> No. I didn't know what it did. > > It very specifically mentioned improving the search capability in the > dialog where you made that choice... Yeah, bu

Re: [CentOS] t-bird, followup

2012-03-13 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Les Mikesell > wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:11 PM,   wrote: did you pick the 'sync' option for the account?  After doing that, >>> >>> No. I didn't know what it did. >> >> It very specifically mentioned improving the search

Re: [CentOS] udev works ok in CentOS 6.x??

2012-03-13 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/13/12 8:19 AM, C. L. Martinez wrote: > Please, any help? avoid using ANY device names for SCSI class devices, they are near useless.mount the volumes via label or uUID. -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Nataraj wrote: >> > Ok, so it wouldn't work to just use the oldest received, but a smarter > inspection could check to see weather it actually passed through a > server owned by the claimed domain.  The reality is that what is need is > to input this into a scorin

Re: [CentOS] debugging RAM issues

2012-03-13 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 13, 2012, at 12:50 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > Back about 3 months ago I took this system down and removed all the RAM, > and stuck individual chips into it and booted it, testing each chip on its > own. At that time every single one of them worked! But I'm about to try > this again to see

Re: [CentOS] debugging RAM issues

2012-03-13 Thread Alan McKay
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > It could be a bad physical RAM slot on the motherboard. > > Oh dang, why didn't I think of that! I'll try that next -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" _

Re: [CentOS] debugging RAM issues

2012-03-13 Thread Scott Silva
on 3/13/2012 11:07 AM Ross Walker spake the following: > On Mar 13, 2012, at 12:50 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > >> Back about 3 months ago I took this system down and removed all the RAM, >> and stuck individual chips into it and booted it, testing each chip on its >> own. At that time every single o

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-13 Thread Nataraj
On 03/13/2012 11:05 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Nataraj wrote: >> Ok, so it wouldn't work to just use the oldest received, but a smarter >> inspection could check to see weather it actually passed through a >> server owned by the claimed domain. The reality is that

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-13 Thread Markus Falb
On 12.3.2012 01:37, Mark LaPierre wrote: > Tape, and tape drives, have a bad reputation. They are difficult and > time consuming to verify. Harddisks have a bad reputation too. They fail regulary. Anyway, I would not feel comfortable about backing up data residing on a harddisk to another harddi

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-13 Thread Tom Bishop
Nataraj I need something for a very small shop and have been looking...been reading the comments. Is vpostmaster easy to setup and maintain, I'm looking for something lightweight and works for spam, I support them after hours and looking for something that just works On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at

Re: [CentOS] t-bird, followup

2012-03-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:57 PM, wrote: > >> Try 'Help/Migration Assistant' > > Well, import didn't have it; I did go to account settings->synchronization > & storage, and it has message synchronizing checked, and sync all messages > regardless of age. > >> Worst case, you might delete the accou

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Markus Falb wrote: > >> Tape, and tape drives, have a bad reputation.  They are difficult and >> time consuming to verify. > > Harddisks have a bad reputation too. They fail regulary. Yes, but if they are online, in raid, with smart monitoring, you swap them (mayb

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-13 Thread m . roth
Markus Falb wrote: > On 12.3.2012 01:37, Mark LaPierre wrote: >> Tape, and tape drives, have a bad reputation. They are difficult and >> time consuming to verify. > > Harddisks have a bad reputation too. They fail regulary. > Not that frequently. > Anyway, I would not feel comfortable about backi

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-13 Thread Nataraj
On 03/13/2012 11:28 AM, Tom Bishop wrote: > Nataraj > > I need something for a very small shop and have been looking...been > reading the comments. Is vpostmaster easy to setup and maintain, I'm > looking for something lightweight and works for spam, I support them after > hours and looking for s

Re: [CentOS] t-bird, followup

2012-03-13 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:57 PM, wrote: >> The gov laptop is at home. I turn it on *only* when I have to > > I like lots of pixels in front of me so I park my laptop beside the > desktop and run synergy on both to share the desktop keyboard/mouse > and get cut/paste ac

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-13 Thread Tom Bishop
One more thing, I did a quick search and it appears that they are now supporting 6.x code...have you given that a try yet...I already have a centos 6.2 vmware template that would make it quick and easy to spool up... On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Nataraj wrote: > On 03/13/2012 11:28 AM, Tom B

[CentOS] perl-DBD-MySQL, libmysqlclient.16 and 5.7 (FInal)

2012-03-13 Thread Ilya Kazakevich
Hello, I have server CentOS 5.7. It has mysql-community installed. I need to run perl-based tool (mysqlreport) and it requires perl-DBD-MySQL (not a surprise) When I am trying to install perl-DBD-MySQL via yum -- it says it requires libmysqlclient.*15 *and it conflicts with libmysqlclient.*16 *w

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-13 Thread Nataraj
On 03/13/2012 12:03 PM, Tom Bishop wrote: > One more thing, I did a quick search and it appears that they are now > supporting 6.x code...have you given that a try yet...I already have a > centos 6.2 vmware template that would make it quick and easy to spool up... I'm still running on CentOS 5, bu

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-13 Thread Tom Bishop
Good point, will add it to my long list of things to get done :) On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Nataraj wrote: > On 03/13/2012 12:03 PM, Tom Bishop wrote: > > One more thing, I did a quick search and it appears that they are now > > supporting 6.x code...have you given that a try yet...I alrea

Re: [CentOS] t-bird, followup

2012-03-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:57 PM, wrote: > > >>> The gov laptop is at home. I turn it on *only* when I have to >> >> I like lots of pixels in front of me so I park my laptop beside the >> desktop and run synergy on both to share the desktop keyboard/mouse >> and get cut/paste across them.  No

[CentOS] [SOLVED] Cron marks mailto value as UNSAFE

2012-03-13 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, March 12, 2012 15:03, James B. Byrne wrote: > CentOS-6.2 > > We moved a cron job from a CentOS-5.7 host to a CentOS-6.2 > host. The MAILTO variable is set to supp...@harte-lyne.ca > in both instances. On the CentOS-6 host instead of > receiving the mail with the output we see this in >

Re: [CentOS] debugging RAM issues

2012-03-13 Thread Alan McKay
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Scott Silva wrote: > It could also be a power supply problem... Add memory load, and a bit of > heat, > and voltage drops a bit... > Problem is that even if I leave it unplugged for some time I can get the problem. And I have the heat sensors all graphed, and

Re: [CentOS] perl-DBD-MySQL, libmysqlclient.16 and 5.7 (FInal)

2012-03-13 Thread m . roth
Ilya Kazakevich wrote: > Hello, > > I have server CentOS 5.7. It has mysql-community installed. > > I need to run perl-based tool (mysqlreport) and it requires perl-DBD-MySQL > (not a surprise) > > When I am trying to install perl-DBD-MySQL via yum -- it says it requires > libmysqlclient.*15 *and i

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed[Solution that works]

2012-03-13 Thread Bob Hoffman
*Nataraj* /Tue Mar 13 13:17:32 EDT 2012 wrote == / Also anyone using rbl's should also review the RBL's policy. Most RBL's charge a license fee for high volume queries and will cut you off if you violate their policy. our logwatch format is very nice, t

[CentOS] 6.2 kernel issues - followup

2012-03-13 Thread m . roth
I wrote: > A couple weeks ago, after we moved a user's home directory from a 5.7 box to 6.2, he came > to complain about slowness. > Unpack file from NFS-mounted directory to local disk, like /tmp, > everything's normal. cd to the NFS-mounted directory, and unpack it there, and it was > six to sev

Re: [CentOS] perl-DBD-MySQL, libmysqlclient.16 and 5.7 (FInal)

2012-03-13 Thread Ilya Kazakevich
Thanks. My problem is stupid: person who installed MySQL on this server did not use yum repositories at all! I have "MySQL-shared-community-5.*1*.57-1.rhel5" installed (according to rpm -qa) while yum repositories have 5.*0*.95 (according to repoquery -i mysql) and it leads to inconsistency. I thin

Re: [CentOS] perl-DBD-MySQL, libmysqlclient.16 and 5.7 (FInal)

2012-03-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Ilya Kazakevich wrote: > Thanks. > My problem is stupid: person who installed MySQL on this server did not use > yum repositories at all! > I have "MySQL-shared-community-5.*1*.57-1.rhel5" installed (according to > rpm -qa) while yum repositories have 5.*0*.95 (acc

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-13 Thread Markus Falb
On 13.3.2012 19:46, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Markus Falb wrote: >> What about if a firmware bug destroys all data on day XXX on all >> harddisks ? Well, extra paranoid maybe and of course I have not thought >> of all possible things that *could* happen. > > Are you saying that you only buy one mo

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] perl-DBD-MySQL, libmysqlclient.16 and 5.7 (FInal)

2012-03-13 Thread Ilya Kazakevich
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Ilya Kazakevich > wrote: > > Thanks. > > My problem is stupid: person who installed MySQL on this server did not > use > > yum repositories at all! > > I have "MySQL-shared-community-5.*1*.57-1.rhel5" install

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Markus Falb wrote: > On 13.3.2012 19:46, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Markus Falb wrote: >>> What about if a firmware bug destroys all data on day XXX on all >>> harddisks ? Well, extra paranoid maybe and of course I have not thought >>> of all possible things that *

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-13 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 13, 2012, at 10:02 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I'm just trying to think of ways around a blacklist... *esp* the way > dnsorb does, where they'll blacklist an entire block that belongs to a > hosting provider, who provides one external delivery address. When I did spamassassin I relied on

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-13 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 13, 2012, at 2:56 PM, Nataraj wrote: > For a small site it runs > very well in a VM. A VM is certainly adequate for testing. Hehe, I run my complete environment in a VM, it isn't the CPU/memory that limits VM deployments it's network/disk. Got enough network and disk spindles and I can

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-13 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 13.03.2012 19:46, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: > Markus Falb wrote: >> On 12.3.2012 01:37, Mark LaPierre wrote: >>> Tape, and tape drives, have a bad reputation. They are difficult and >>> time consuming to verify. >> >> Harddisks have a bad reputation too. They fail regulary. >> > Not that freque

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-13 Thread John R Pierce
here's my tentative plans for a d2d backup in my lab. 2 identical servers, each with lots of SATA bays. each server configured with 2 raids, raid1 is this servers storage, and raid2 is a DRBD mirror of the other servers storage. each server runs KVM and under KVM runs a CentOS virtual machi

Re: [CentOS] t-bird, followup

2012-03-13 Thread Jake Shipton
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:42:44 -0500 Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Jake Shipton > wrote: > > > > Oh? I have, I found Claws to have quite advanced search, filters, > > actions etc. It's one of the main reasons I switched :-) > > > > Here's a screenshot of claws extended se

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Am 13.03.2012 19:46, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: >> Markus Falb wrote: >>> On 12.3.2012 01:37, Mark LaPierre wrote: Tape, and tape drives, have a bad reputation.  They are difficult and time consuming to verify. >>> >>> Harddisks hav

[CentOS] CentOS 5 Testing repo

2012-03-13 Thread Spiro Harvey
We were using the CentOS 5 testing repo on dev.centos.org to update our webservers' PHP to 5.2. However, we've just tried building a new machine lately and found that the repo seems to be empty. Is this a temporary fault, or has it gone away now that CentOS 6 is out? If it has gone away, where can

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-13 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Am 13.03.2012 19:46, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: >> Markus Falb wrote: >>> On 12.3.2012 01:37, Mark LaPierre wrote: Tape, and tape drives, have a bad reputation.  They are difficult and time consuming to verify. >>> >>> Harddisks hav

[CentOS] mount NFS share over specific nic?

2012-03-13 Thread Smithies, Russell
I have a new server with multiple nics running Centos 6.2 and I'd like to force all NFS traffic over one nic. We're using FreeNAS to dish out NFS shares and I have different IPs on my 2 nics but how can I get the server to mount the share over one particular nic? Or is there a better way to do it

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 Testing repo

2012-03-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 03/13/2012 07:58 PM, Spiro Harvey wrote: > We were using the CentOS 5 testing repo on dev.centos.org to update our > webservers' PHP to 5.2. However, we've just tried building a new > machine lately and found that the repo seems to be empty. Is this a > temporary fault, or has it gone away now t

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-13 Thread Nataraj
On 03/13/2012 05:23 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Tilman Schmidt > wrote: >> Am 13.03.2012 19:46, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: >>> Markus Falb wrote: On 12.3.2012 01:37, Mark LaPierre wrote: > Tape, and tape drives, have a bad reputation. They are difficult and

Re: [CentOS] mount NFS share over specific nic?

2012-03-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I have a new server with multiple nics running Centos 6.2 and I'd like to >force all NFS traffic over one nic. >We're using FreeNAS to dish out NFS shares and I have different IPs on my 2 >nics but how can I get the server to mount the share over one >particular nic? >Or is there a better way to

Re: [CentOS] mount NFS share over specific nic?

2012-03-13 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Smithies, Russell wrote: > I have a new server with multiple nics running Centos 6.2 and I'd like to > force all NFS traffic over one nic. > We're using FreeNAS to dish out NFS shares and I have different IPs on my 2 > nics but how can I get the server to mount t

Re: [CentOS] mount NFS share over specific nic?

2012-03-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Smithies, Russell > wrote: >> I have a new server with multiple nics running Centos 6.2 and I'd like to >> force all NFS traffic over one nic. >> We're using FreeNAS to dish out NFS shares and I have diffe

Re: [CentOS] mount NFS share over specific nic?

2012-03-13 Thread Smithies, Russell
I suspected some subnetting would be involved but hoped I could get away with different IPs on the nics. Might have to get the networking books out, it's not my strong suit :-( --Russell > -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behal

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-13 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/13/12 7:05 PM, Nataraj wrote: > I would have to dig up some references, but I have read some articles > that claim that the reliability of a drive that is in full time > operation in a server, running 24hrs/day and maybe even seeking under > heavy load is way different than a drive that you r

Re: [CentOS] mount NFS share over specific nic?

2012-03-13 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/13/12 8:42 PM, Smithies, Russell wrote: > I suspected some subnetting would be involved but hoped I could get away with > different IPs on the nics. > Might have to get the networking books out, it's not my strong suit :-( differnet IPs on the same subnet is just oging to cause confusion.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-13 Thread Nataraj
On 03/13/2012 09:17 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/13/12 7:05 PM, Nataraj wrote: >> I would have to dig up some references, but I have read some articles >> that claim that the reliability of a drive that is in full time >> operation in a server, running 24hrs/day and maybe even seeking under >>

Re: [CentOS] mount NFS share over specific nic?

2012-03-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Smithies, Russell wrote: > I suspected some subnetting would be involved but hoped I could get away with > different IPs on the nics. > Might have to get the networking books out, it's not my strong suit  :-( If you look at network addresses and subnet masks in

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Nataraj wrote: > > You could take your chances on the dyes with optical media.  Some say > that in a proper controlled environment, they will last much longer. > The best media I think are the ones from Japan and singapore.  There are > several places in Japan tha

Re: [CentOS] t-bird, followup

2012-03-13 Thread Nataraj
On 03/13/2012 10:42 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Jake Shipton > wrote: >> Oh? I have, I found Claws to have quite advanced search, filters, >> actions etc. It's one of the main reasons I switched :-) >> >> Here's a screenshot of claws extended search: >> >> http://i