Re: [CentOS] mbox files - can they be "compacted"?

2014-04-15 Thread Keith Keller
On 2014-04-15, Russell Miller wrote: > > As some have noted, modern filesystems are better at this than ones such as > ext2. > However, even in the best of cases, there are still situations where maildirs > with a lot of messages > are awkward to handle. Specifically, if you're trying to find s

Re: [CentOS] Old HP Xeon server blade with only SCSI HDD ports & CentOS

2014-04-15 Thread Christian Freund
Hi Les, we did that this winter in another floor and replaced a complete server-room, containing several Racks full of 1850/1950/2850/2950/R310, except the least all with 2 or more local SCSI-disks and dual power-supply. All that now runs in a virtualized environment on 2+1 R720; we now have 3 R7

[CentOS] Botched kernel update

2014-04-15 Thread lhecking
I have a 6.5 box that failed to boot after a kernel update. The reason is the first arg on the kernel line: title CentOS (2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.x86_64) root (hd0,0) kernel /tboot.gz ro root=/dev/mapper/vol0-lvol1 intel_iommu=on rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_NO_MD SYSFONT=latarcyrhe

[CentOS] package conflict with libmodplug in rpmforge and epel

2014-04-15 Thread Chris
Dear All, there's a security update for libmodplug: This update is needed to fix a security vulnerability with this package. This notification was issued on 2011-05-10 and last updated on 2011-05-09. Update to upstream version 0.8.8.3 (CVE-2011-1574, CVE-2011-1761). I've the following priorities

Re: [CentOS] Death of dyndns

2014-04-15 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Timothy Murphy : > I'm running two servers, one with a fixed IP address > and the other with a dynamic address. > > This is probably a very ignorant question, > but what does dyndns do that I could not do myself? In principle, nothing. But you aren't their use case. At wikipedia's page

Re: [CentOS] package conflict with libmodplug in rpmforge and epel

2014-04-15 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
On 04/14/2014 06:40 PM, Chris wrote: > Dear All, > > there's a security update for libmodplug: > This update is needed to fix a security vulnerability with this package. > This notification was issued on 2011-05-10 and last updated on > 2011-05-09. Update to upstream version 0.8.8.3 (CVE-2011-1574,

Re: [CentOS] Old HP Xeon server blade with only SCSI HDD ports & CentOS

2014-04-15 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/14/2014 11:58 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > So has anyone done a cost analysis on the point where it is an overall > win to replace those old power hogs even if they still work if you > consider several years of savings on power/AC/space/time and maybe the > possibility of replacing at least 4

Re: [CentOS] Old HP Xeon server blade with only SCSI HDD ports & CentOS

2014-04-15 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/15/2014 05:17 AM, Christian Freund wrote: > Now calculating the hardware cost: 60K EUR for servers, storage-upgrade and > licenses, and saving 262MWh or 52K EUR per year. So after 14 month of > operation the energy-saving pays the hardware. In your case it was a big win. For us, not so much.

[CentOS] Contributing packages

2014-04-15 Thread James B. Byrne
I have recently built and packaged httpd-2.4.9 from source provided by apache.org together with apr-1.5.0 and apr-util-1.5.3. I removed mod_socache_dc from the httpd.spec file so that the complete build provides the following packages: apr-1.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm apr-debuginfo-1.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.r

Re: [CentOS] mbox files - can they be "compacted"?

2014-04-15 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/14/2014 01:41 AM, Russell Miller wrote: > HOWEVER. When a directory grows too large, the OS can take a long time > to seek through the directory, which can cause its own set of > problems. And this makes cleaning out a maildir directory selectively > a real pain. Maildir really could do wi

Re: [CentOS] mbox files - can they be "compacted"?

2014-04-15 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/14/2014 01:47 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > I wonder what thunderbird uses? One of the mbox variants; that's why it does 'compaction.' ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] mailman and yahoo

2014-04-15 Thread John R Pierce
so, supposedly mailman 2.1.16+ has a feature that allows you to configure mailman lists so yahoo won't have a hissy with their new implementation of DMARC. http://www.spamresource.com/2014/04/up-in-arms-about-yahoos-dmarc-policy.html has anyone packaged this as an RPM for CentOS 5 ? I currentl

[CentOS] CentOS 5/6 random system freezes

2014-04-15 Thread Andrii Zinchenko
I am working on high load daemon development, which listens on UDP and processes packets. Last few months I noticed some strange issue when it takes 500-700 ms to answer packet, while usually it takes 20 ms. I've run strace on all daemon processes and found this thing: 13:35:36.979887 stat("/etc/l

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 mount of ntfs formatted usb stick fails

2014-04-15 Thread Rob Kampen
On 04/15/2014 02:42 PM, Russell Miller wrote: On Apr 14, 2014, at 7:23 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 4/14/2014 6:06 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: I recently received an 8GB usb stick that fails to mount on my fully patched CentOS 6.5 desktop machine. The stick works just fine on a windoze 7 laptop (my