Re: [CentOS] Please help me rate vnc, rdesktop, and freenx

2007-12-07 Thread Bill Campbell
ame &'' to run the xterm on my local machine. Once I get around to upgrading my Macs to Leopard, I may use the Apple remote desktop feature occassionally when I need to see what a client is doing on their desktop which should be faster than trying to talk them through a GUI on the pho

Re: [CentOS] Re: Please help me rate vnc, rdesktop, and freenx

2007-12-07 Thread Bill Campbell
sage over time, and noticed that an idle machine with nothing but a ``screen saver'' running seemed to have about 30% CPU utilization which dropped near zero as soon as some activity shut the screen saver down. Granted, this was probably 8 years ago and processors are faster, but it's

Re: [CentOS] remote ssh to machine how display firefox

2007-12-07 Thread Bill Campbell
ed network, you shouldn't need to use SSH at >all, since you trust the devices (and their users) attached to the network >not to do nasty things like network sniffing, MitM attacks, etc.). True enough, but ssh makes the X11 DISPLAY things so easy! One doesn't have to muc

Re: [CentOS] remote ssh to machine how display firefox

2007-12-07 Thread Bill Campbell
this. I first ran into a problem with this when connecting to a FreeBSD 4.8 system. It took me a while to figure out why X11 clients didn't work from my Linux desktops. The strange thing was that xeyes would work, but xterms would not. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; C

Re: [CentOS] remote ssh to machine how display firefox

2007-12-08 Thread Bill Campbell
c IP addresses. Recently we have been using OpenVPN to allow secure access from remote users which makes restricting ssh access easier when people are roaming so can't be easily identified by IP address. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://

Re: [CentOS] OT: Rsync question

2007-12-09 Thread Bill Campbell
gid = root read only = false use chroot = false path = /backups comment = /backups hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/16 hosts deny = * Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6

Re: [CentOS] Help with UML editor?

2007-12-11 Thread Bill Campbell
gt;If you find another tool I can use or test, please let me know. I could >use it as soon as possible." I'm using ArgoUML with ArchGenXML to develop Plone products. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 8

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a howto site

2007-12-11 Thread Bill Campbell
look at http://www.linux-sxs.org/ Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquill

Re: [CentOS] Re: Looking for a howto site

2007-12-11 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007, Scott Silva wrote: >on 12/11/2007 11:51 AM Bill Campbell spake the following: >>On Tue, Dec 11, 2007, Alfredo Perez wrote: >>>Hi >>> >>>I have been googling without success so I thought >>>to ask the following question to the list:

Re: [CentOS] vsifax on Centos 5.1

2007-12-11 Thread Bill Campbell
n various Linux systems for well over a decade with excellent results (and we hosted their mailing list for several years before they registered hylafax.org). http://www.hylafax.org/ Another commercial package for *nix systems is Faximum. This too has been around since the early '90s. Bill

Re: [CentOS] vsifax on Centos 5.1

2007-12-12 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: >On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 22:25 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: >> >On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 00:56 +0100, Vincent Knecht wrote: >> >> > All >> >> > >> >

Re: [CentOS] find IP address of device on network based on MAC address

2007-12-14 Thread Bill Campbell
etwork, 192.168.1.0/24 ping -c3 -b 192.168.1.255 arp -an | grep -i macaddress Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 Dem

Re: [CentOS] Prelink: Something's happening here

2007-12-23 Thread Bill Campbell
is trying to find changes on a possibly cracked system. Personally I figure being able to verify a system at any time is far more important than any possible optimization from prelinking so remove/disable prelink. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UR

Re: [CentOS] Linux vs Windows Drivers

2007-12-26 Thread Bill Campbell
their efforts where they will get the most return. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 The day-to-day travails of th

Re: [CentOS] Re: How to size an email server to handle 5 million emails per day

2008-01-03 Thread Bill Campbell
27;re also running on a 10/100 switch, and going to a gigabit switch should speed up mail delivery. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820

Re: [CentOS] Mail server setup for small ISP

2008-01-03 Thread Bill Campbell
e the same storage. Or >maybe IMAP proxies? > > Any insights welcome :). I hope you're not charging your client for your learning curve. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Wa

Re: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

2008-01-04 Thread Bill Campbell
erfect, fewer than 1 spam per month has made it through to any of the lists we host in the last year (at least one of which I approved accidentally :-). The only moderated list we host is one for monthly announcements where only the list owner is allowed to post. All the others are members-onl

Re: [CentOS] Log Monitoring Recomendation

2008-01-07 Thread Bill Campbell
..). I would hope it might have a some features to email > critical issues etc... We use swatch to monitor various things, mainly security related. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:

Re: [CentOS] Log Monitoring Recomendation

2008-01-07 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: >Bill Campbell wrote: > >>> Given my experience in Linux is limited currently, what do you guys >>> use to monitor logs such as `messages' on your centos servers? I had a >>> hardware failure that happened in betwe

Re: [CentOS] Re: Log Monitoring Recomendation

2008-01-08 Thread Bill Campbell
#x27; occurrences within a minute). I've attached the swatchrc configuration file from this machine which has several examples. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 2

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: Securing Linux laptops

2008-01-08 Thread Bill Campbell
present-and-future/ One could also set up a script that automatically sends an e-mail message when the laptop boots, and perhaps periodic e-mails from cron. This could provide at least the IP address from which the mail was sent which could help locate it. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [CentOS] centos command to monitor a process for exit

2008-01-11 Thread Bill Campbell
rly standard way of checking things like this is: pidfile=/var/run/progname.pid progname_signal() { [ -f $progname_pidfile ] && kill -$1 `cat $progname_pidfile` } if progname_signal 0 then echo is running else echo not running fi Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [CentOS] "find" switch to find files of a certain size?

2008-01-12 Thread Bill Campbell
is 88% full and I'd like to see where the biggest space >> hoggers are. > >I also found this on the net: >du /path/to/anywhere/* -hs | grep [0-9]M | sort -rn | head -20 > I usually use something like: find /mountpoint -xdev -size +10000 > someplacenotfull Bill -- INTE

Re: [CentOS] location of sg.c on distro CDs

2008-01-16 Thread Bill Campbell
file which is part of the glibc-headers package. The sg.ko files are in various kernel-2.6.* packages. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 9804

Re: [CentOS] Setenv missing

2008-01-17 Thread Bill Campbell
mand(s) that works on /bin/sh, bash, ksh, etc. is: # this works on /bin/sh and all it's children PAGER='vim' export PAGER # this works on most, but not all export PAGER='vim' One can also use something like: PAGER='vim' some_command Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAI

Re: [CentOS] ReiserFS

2008-01-28 Thread Bill Campbell
systems as it doesn't support xfs in the default configuration. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 DOS: n., A sma

Re: [CentOS] question on "cp -f" on centos 5.1

2008-01-28 Thread Bill Campbell
sponsible adult, you might want to comment out the other aliases in your .profile or other startup files which appear as: alias rm='rm -i' alias cp='cp -i' alias mv='mv -i' Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celes

Re: [CentOS] One approach to dealing with SSH brute force attacks.

2008-01-30 Thread Bill Campbell
use tcp_wrappers to further limit access by IP address. Roaming users can first establish a VPN connection using OpenVPN, then make any ssh connections vis the private VPN tunnel. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box

Re: [CentOS] No route to host

2008-01-30 Thread Bill Campbell
as just able to ping mail.pttropical.co.id, their only listed MX server. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 The differ

Re: [CentOS] One approach to dealing with SSH brute force attacks.

2008-02-04 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008, John Horne wrote: > >On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 13:11 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008, Brian Mathis wrote: >> ... >> > >> >Log parsing scripts often don't provide the immediacy that rate >> >limiting doe

Re: [CentOS] Re: tail command

2008-02-04 Thread Bill Campbell
ay to grab the contents of a file starting at a >> > certain line number and beyond. >> I think it would be tail -n +83 file > >Ahh, yes. Because it can be a line count or byte count. The -n wasn't >necessary in the old coreutils. Thanks alot. The default syntax for

Re: [CentOS] Creating a Roaming imap account

2008-02-05 Thread Bill Campbell
OpenVPN connections, it is easy to make the connections (and easy to revoke them as well). There are OpenVPN clients for the Microsoft virus, Windows, OS X, and every version of Unix I've used. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celesti

Re: [CentOS] log outbound port 80 connections

2008-02-05 Thread Bill Campbell
Once one has an interesting PID, then using ``lsof -p PID'' will show everything that process is using including the full path to the executing program. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer W

Re: [CentOS] python XML processing to turn a XML file into a structure?

2008-02-05 Thread Bill Campbell
L file? > >I'm a newbie to Python programming, though years ago >I've processed XML files with Java but now I am in a >rush. First check the python library reference: http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html There are various tools there that may provide what you ne

Re: [CentOS] Using tcpdump to sniff telnet password

2008-02-06 Thread Bill Campbell
ET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their view

Re: [CentOS] Samba GUI interface

2008-02-06 Thread Bill Campbell
a users at same time and/or >convert posix users to samba users I prefer using swat on port 901 for most samba configuration, largely because it has excellent on-line help to explain the multitude of options available. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: h

Re: [CentOS] Date/Time config 'behind the scenes'

2008-02-07 Thread Bill Campbell
x27;s going on under the covers is to create a file to use as a time stamp, modify something with a GUI, then use find to see what has been changed. touch /tmp/timestamp # do something GUIish find /etc -newer /tmp/timestamp > /tmp/changelist Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; C

Re: [CentOS] About postgresql tcpip connection

2008-02-15 Thread Bill Campbell
pg_hba.conf file. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It

Re: [CentOS] About postgresql tcpip connection

2008-02-15 Thread Bill Campbell
I suspect one has to restart postgresql to have it see changes, but wouldn't bet on it. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (2

Re: [CentOS] CentOS, ISDN and Fax ...

2008-03-02 Thread Bill Campbell
dems. I've always avoided any internal modems as it's kinda hard to reset a wedged internal modem without rebooting the machine. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206)

Re: [CentOS] CentOS, ISDN and Fax ...

2008-03-02 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008, Fred Kienker wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Bill Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... >> We use HylaFAX for all our incoming and outgoing fax, with >> Multitech external modems. I've always avoided any internal >> m

Re: [CentOS] Migrate Outlook Express mail to Thunderbird?

2008-03-14 Thread Bill Campbell
tandard Unix mail files, U.W. IMAP binary mbx format, kmail, etc. As I remember the original posting was talking about mail stored in Microsoft's proprietary binary format, I think the same one used by Access and Exchange servers. I have never tackled recovering data from these formats,

Re: [CentOS] which open source wiki CMS?

2008-03-16 Thread Bill Campbell
ng xml-rpc without doing anything special to enable an xml-rpc server. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 Never blame

Re: [CentOS] rpm build machines

2008-03-18 Thread Bill Campbell
cision Arithmetic Library, required by clamav. Pretty much everything we build, we do with the OpenPKG portable package management system where the basic philosophy is to make it easy to build on the target machines thus avoiding this type of problem. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Ca

Re: [CentOS] RPM verify weirdness

2008-03-18 Thread Bill Campbell
ith ? are most likely zero length. The ``c'' characters in the middle indicate configuration files, and changes are often normal. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 23

Re: [CentOS] Xen or VMWARE on CentOS 5

2008-03-23 Thread Bill Campbell
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm bogomips: 3999.96 clflush size: 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits

Re: [CentOS] Xen or VMWARE on CentOS 5

2008-03-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: >Bill Campbell wrote: >>On Wed, Feb 27, 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: ... >>I just started playing with VMware-server-1.0.5-80187 on a 64-bit >>CentOS 5 system system, and am having some issues with the hotkey >>switching. Runnin

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-24 Thread Bill Campbell
ed, and the system's /bin/ls routine replaced by one hacked to hide the cracker's programs. ``rpm -V coreutils procps util-linux'' may well show several critical programs changed. You can also try running ``strace /bin/ls'' to see what is going on. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMA

Re: [CentOS] Question on mail

2008-03-27 Thread Bill Campbell
rked in years - I think they recently turned it on >again denying everything so people would remove it from their configs. As far as I know, it's been blocking everything for about two years now. The amazing thing is that people are still using it. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [CentOS] IMAP security

2008-03-28 Thread Bill Campbell
oes prevent them from sniffing the connections. Of course you are using good passwords n'est pas? Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040

Re: [CentOS] Re: questions on kickstart

2008-03-28 Thread Bill Campbell
rmally mounted). This provides the ability to boot a damaged system from ``/backroot'', and a fallback position if an upgrade goes south by refreshing the copy just prior to doing the upgrade. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www

Re: [CentOS] Is tripwire still being developed?

2008-03-29 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008, Mag Gam wrote: Yes, but the emphasis is on their commercial products. Another open source alternative for intrusion detection is aide. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer

[CentOS] Rocketport PCI drivers CentOS 5.1 x86_64

2008-04-06 Thread Bill Campbell
Are there drivers for the Rocketport PCI 8-port cards for CentOS 5.1 x86_64? I'm not finding anything in the default repos. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236

Re: [CentOS] MS Exchange Replacement

2008-04-07 Thread Bill Campbell
nor do I mind paying for proprietary solutions if they do a better job for my paying customers than I can do with open source. The horde/imp/kronolith/... family of programs, provide good functionallity, but, like any webmail solution, have some basic limitations due to the web interface. Bill --

Re: [CentOS] xfs and centosplus kernel

2008-04-07 Thread Bill Campbell
. http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories/CentOSPlus Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 If the government can

Re: [CentOS] Re: MS Exchange Replacement

2008-04-07 Thread Bill Campbell
to drop this, and HP probably sells far more systems running Windows than they do running *nix systems. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, W

Re: [CentOS] Plone

2008-04-08 Thread Bill Campbell
l methods available? Do you have Zope installed? Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Things in our co

Re: [CentOS] Server Shut Down!!!!

2008-04-08 Thread Bill Campbell
. I would try booting the system with a Knoppix liveCD (or other livecd of your preference), which should allow you to look at the hard disk to analyze the problem(s), run fsck if fdisk shows that the partition table is intact. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell;

Re: [CentOS] Summary Server Shut Down!!!!

2008-04-08 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008, Harry Sukumar wrote: > >Summary >Many Thanks to Bill Campbell, Nicolas Sahlqvist and Barry Brimer >The problem turned out to be one of disk had software errors (message >attached), >I used ubuntu live cd to fix this issue You are making good backups n&

[CentOS] kickstart ks.cfg file on USB devices

2008-04-11 Thread Bill Campbell
vices for an ``info'' configuration file. Does CentOS 5.x do something similar to find a ``ks.cfg'' file? Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676

Re: [CentOS] kickstart ks.cfg file on USB devices

2008-04-11 Thread Bill Campbell
;[EMAIL PROTECTED] >306-717-8737 > > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. > >_______ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS@centos.org >http://lists.cent

Re: [CentOS] kickstart ks.cfg file on USB devices

2008-04-11 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008, John wrote: >On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 12:18 -0600, Milton Calnek wrote: >> findfs comes to mind. >> >> other than that... >> fdisk -l | grep >> >> Bill Campbell wrote: >> > Is there an easy way to specify the proper device locat

Re: [CentOS] Unable to POST after suspend

2007-09-12 Thread Bill Campbell
I can help it which is my my company name is not Celestial Hardware :-). Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 The meek shall i

[CentOS] Kickstart install surprise

2007-09-12 Thread Bill Campbell
p 1.0, all versions of Caldera through 2001, and SuSE from 8.1 through SLES10, and never have I seen an installation procedure that would write to anything on the hard drive without asking first. This certainly violates the Principle of Least Surprise. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bil

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart install surprise

2007-09-12 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007, Jim Perrin wrote: >I suppose it would help if I finished the reply before sending. > >On 9/12/07, Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have been installing Linux systems for well over a decade, starting with >> Caldera Networ

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart install surprise

2007-09-12 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007, Karanbir Singh wrote: >Bill Campbell wrote: >> My primary purpose in the original message was to provide feedback from >> somebody who's pretty technical, but not steeped in Red Hat/CentOS. > >I have read that book you speak of, it was mildly entert

Re: [CentOS] Very strange problem i have faced in my 2 years carrier

2007-09-12 Thread Bill Campbell
f you're running the default system with prelink as it changes large numbers of executables rendering the RPM verify close to useless. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 23

Re: [CentOS] Document Scanning and Storage

2007-09-12 Thread Bill Campbell
ome very nice features such as handling multi-page PDF files well. If I were to tackle this today, I would probably do it using Plone since it handles things like indexing and organization well. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celes

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart install surprise

2007-09-12 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007, Karanbir Singh wrote: >Bill Campbell wrote: >> How was I using the wrong tool when I was testing a kickstart configuration >> file in interactive mode, which I figured would be safe as it would allow >> me to exit before it wrote on the disk? I have do

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart install surprise

2007-09-12 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: >Karanbir Singh wrote: >> >> Bill Campbell wrote: >> > How was I using the wrong tool when I was testing a >> kickstart configuration >> > file in interactive mode, which I figured would be safe as >> i

Re: [CentOS] Very strange problem i have faced in my 2 years carrier

2007-09-12 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007, Karanbir Singh wrote: >Bill Campbell wrote: >>Unfortunately that isn't much use if you're running the default >>system with prelink as it changes large numbers of executables >>rendering the RPM verify close to useless. > >unless yo

Re: [CentOS] too many links error when creating directories

2007-09-27 Thread Bill Campbell
rectories with about 10,000 subdirectories. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 Anyone who thinks Microsoft never does anyt

Re: [CentOS] too many links error when creating directories

2007-09-27 Thread Bill Campbell
your own. I would avoid reiserfs as I've seen far too many cases where there has been massive data loss with it. I've used xfs extensively on SuSE systems without problems, but haven't tried it on centos as it's not supported by the base systems. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [CentOS] Silly question - Anything faster than rm?

2007-09-29 Thread Bill Campbell
gt;I thought maybe there might be some other command i'm not aware of >that would wipe this stuff out faster ya know. If there's not much other data on the file system it might be faster to copy that off, make a new file system, then copy the data back. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [CentOS] Silly question - Anything faster than rm?

2007-09-30 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007, Matthew Miller wrote: >On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 07:14:54PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Go with fat16 or fat32 instead of ext3fs. > >For performance??? For humor, a very bad joke. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Softwar

Re: [CentOS] Silly question - Anything faster than rm?

2007-09-30 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >For deleting performance. When it comes to deleting files, fat seems >fairly quick. It even can magically delete ones you wanted. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/

Re: [CentOS] Re: Zimbra error on centos 4.4

2007-10-03 Thread Bill Campbell
errno=99 (Cannot assign requested address) > slap_open_listener: failed on ldap://mailgw.la-[1]marge.com:389 > FAILED (1) > ERROR > Configuration failed > YOUR COMMENTS? This would happen if one had slapd running already. Zimbra requires that one remove conflicting services bef

Re: [CentOS] Re: Zimbra error on centos 4.4

2007-10-04 Thread Bill Campbell
: failed on ldap://mailgw.la-[2] marge.com:389 > >slapd cannot bind to the adress:port - probably because something is >already listening there. Zimbra really wants to own the machine, and doesn't play nicely with others. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Sof

Re: [CentOS] Need advice on 3rd party repository

2007-10-05 Thread Bill Campbell
issues with your versions of PHP? The >upstream vendor backports security fixes: > > http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting/ > >Security scanning tools often have no clue of this. You could have left off `` of this''. Several of the security scanning com

Re: [CentOS] accurate file size

2007-10-14 Thread Bill Campbell
ld have more available space after loading files from another system would have a bit more free space, all other things being equal, because new files would likely be in contiguous space, not spread about as may happen with growing database files. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbel

Re: [CentOS] Re: DocX support in OpenOffice

2007-10-18 Thread Bill Campbell
ill for the foreseeable future, but I find the Macs more suitable for the average desktop user who doen't care about what's under the hood. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:

[CentOS] LD_ASSUME_KERNEL library issues CentOS 5 x86_64

2007-11-08 Thread Bill Campbell
PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 If you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you -- Benjami

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-28 Thread Bill Campbell
nal ISP customer's site with about 10,000 e-mail users and several machines in a cluster delivering mail to Maildir folders that are NFS mounted to the central server. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E.

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-29 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: >On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:51:25AM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: >> We haven't had any notable performance problems using this at a regional >> ISP customer's site with about 10,000 e-mail users and several machines in >&g

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mail Server Install

2007-11-29 Thread Bill Campbell
e all British. And all speak different languages :-). Winston Churchill said the U.S. and Britain are two peoples separated by a common language. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-29 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007, Christopher Chan wrote: >Bill Campbell wrote: >>On Thu, Nov 29, 2007, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: >>>On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:51:25AM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: >>>>We haven't had any notable performance problems using this at a regional

Re: [CentOS] Obtuse-smtpd and Postfix

2007-12-01 Thread Bill Campbell
entation on the postfix web site, http://www.postfix.org/ Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 People from East Germa

Re: [CentOS] pcre vs. regexp for Postfix checks

2007-12-03 Thread Bill Campbell
). Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 Good luck to all you optimists out there who think Microsoft can deliver 35 mi

Re: [CentOS] SSH question

2007-12-05 Thread Bill Campbell
hostname that your system likes. It may be sufficient to do this in the /etc/hosts file. We use split-horizon DNS with djbdns to allow internal resolution of private subdomains and reverse DNS for the local private net blocks without broadcasting this to the world. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROT

Re: [CentOS] x25 line xterm

2011-02-04 Thread Bill Campbell
was an editable >option to change the number of displayable >lines as is done in putty. At the command line: 'xterm -geometry 80x25'. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice:

Re: [CentOS] openoffice & command line printing

2011-02-18 Thread Bill Campbell
t; >openoffice.org -headless -pt lpt3 document.doc -terminate_after_init > >The above command returns back to the prompt but the document is not >printed. > >Any other ideas would be appreciated!!! > >Greg > >___ >CentOS mailing list >CentO

[CentOS] iptables question.

2011-02-21 Thread Bill Campbell
g wrong, or why this may happen? Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-

Re: [CentOS] iptables question.

2011-02-21 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011, Stephen Harris wrote: >On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 03:32:40PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: > >> My problem is that occassionally an IP addresses doesn't appear to be >> blocked as we continue to see the e-mail messages after the blocks are in >> place.

Re: [CentOS] OT: grep regex pointer appreciated

2011-03-07 Thread Bill Campbell
grep which is grep that groks perl regular expressions. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Skyp

Re: [CentOS] script question

2011-03-31 Thread Bill Campbell
verything between >the two Directory tags. > >Thanks, > >Jerry >___ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS@centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Sof

Re: [CentOS] SQL*Plus output as PDF [Linux]

2011-04-13 Thread Bill Campbell
ripts to generate input for groff, then use groff to create the PDF files. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206

Re: [CentOS] [OT] ups advice

2011-04-14 Thread Bill Campbell
eap generators. We had a week long power outage after the 2001 Clinton Inaugural windstorm, and I got an inexpensive generator from Sears which didn't work at all with APC equipment. We're now using Honda generators which are very quiet, and have kept things going for over a week

[CentOS] USB->Parallel cable compatibility

2011-05-05 Thread Bill Campbell
ke to know that it works before getting a couple. Comments? Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186

Re: [CentOS] Raspberry Pi 4 and C++ 17

2022-04-25 Thread Bill Campbell
gt;for arm at all.  Is there an easy(ish) way to get c++ 17 this architecture? What program do you want to run on the Pi 4? Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www2.celestial.com/ 6641 E. Mercer Way Mobile: (206) 947-5591 PO Box 820 Fa

Re: [CentOS] Raspberry Pi 4 and C++ 17

2022-04-25 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Apr 25, 2022, Will wrote: >On 4/25/2022 4:09 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 25, 2022, Will wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have a program I want to run on a Raspberry PI 4 that was written on an >> > x86_64 architecture.  So I downloaded

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