Re: [CentOS] Re: What is equivalent to MS OUTLOOK ?

Scott Silva wrote: on 12/13/2007 11:05 AM John R Pierce spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: Try Thunderbird with the Calendar plug-in. No windows version that I am aware of. Hmmm? I run Thunderbird on my Windows all the time. But the top-posted part I replied to was about Evoluti

Re: [CentOS] Re: What is equivalent to MS OUTLOOK ?

Scott Silva wrote: > evolution Actually, if you're using Windows XP (32-bit), Evolution does work. At least according to these folks: http://shellter.sourceforge.net/evolution/ Best, After trying this, it doesn't work very well. "These aren't the droids we're looking for

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on Laptops

Ern jura wrote: Sorry this question is not directly linked but has anyone ever bought a laptop from www.laptopplblahblabla or www.stop4whblahblah , I want to buy one for CentOS and they seem to have good deals. Are they genuine and are

Re: [CentOS] After 5.1 update $releasever is still 5

Bernard Lheureux wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 06:58 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: But in the 4.xx version when you do a 'cat /etc/redhat-release' it shows you the version "CentOS release 4.5 (Final)" for example, now with version 5 after the upgrade to version 5.1 if you do a 'cat /etc/redhat-rele

[CentOS] Home Theater Thing

pick it up early today I can come up and help you install it and then just come home later in the day. Cheers, your son -- Chris Mauritz [EMAIL PROTECTED] EVP & Chief Technology Officer Global Music International http://www.imntv.com ___ Cent

Re: [CentOS] Home Theater Thing

Chris Mauritz wrote: oops. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Home Theater Thing

Jim Perrin wrote: Will you help us install it to? :-P Hey, what's a geek son to do? My folks can't even set the time on their VCR. It is, after all, the holiday season. It also makes it a lot more bearable for their son to have some A/V distractions on those long family visits. :)

Re: [CentOS] Home Theater Thing

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is a VCR? It's an ancient thinking machine typically installed over a television set (not to be confused with a plasma or LCD screen like we have in modern timesI'm talking 60kg of honest-to-goodness picture tube, m8) that was often used to tell time. Pe

Re: [CentOS] Home Theater Thing

Dennis McLeod wrote: What's the first recommendation? It was something for about the same price from Sony, but I'm afraid if I recommended that slashdot.com will null route my home IP address. :D ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://l

Re: VS: [CentOS] take plunge and yum update to 4.6

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use apache, mysql and php from centosplus. Anyone updating similar to 4.6? Just took the plunge on a couple dozen boxes without incident so far. They are all "LAMP" machines so you should be OK too. Best, ___ CentO

Re: [CentOS] Kernel version of Centos 4.6

Peter Gross wrote: I have been running Centos 4.5 on one of my servers and have a custom kernel to handle some hardware issues. Is there a kernel version change included in the 4.6 update? If so, what version? All of my 4.6 boxes are reporting kernel-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL. Best, __

Re: [CentOS] Help with dump/restore

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: I'm a big fan and long-time user of amanda, but it's appropriateness here depends on your needs (which you haven't fully spelled out). I'd have to concur. Dump has bitten me in the behind (uhernevermind) a few times when I *really* needed it to work. :)

Re: [CentOS] Help with full and incremental dumps

John R Pierce wrote: I dunno, but `man dump` and `man restore` should tell you about all you need to know. There's a joke in there somewhere ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Re: Firewall frustration

Ugo Bellavance wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 08:57:22 -0500 Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have you ever thought about how rare floppy drives are now? At best you go with a bootable usb, if your notebook supports bootab

Re: [CentOS] Probably OT: Has anyone else seen SeaMonkey 'pop' without warning?

fred smith wrote: Firefox does this to me quite frequently, and it always has. every new release they say they've improved the stability, but it hasn't made any improvement for me in terms of this issue. I recently downloaded the firefox source and did my own build, just to see if the failures m

Re: [CentOS] max mount count incovenient

Linux Man wrote: Hello group I added a new partition in fstab, and works without a problem. I used mkfs.ext3 to create the partition. My problem is that every 26 boots, the system tells that the partition have no been checked since 26 systems boots, ant start to check my new partition. This is a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.0 /proc Backup/Restore

Jim Perrin wrote: /proc and /sys are essentially 'runtime' filesystems which provide information about your system, including memory use, available hardware, various performance settings, etc. The files in here can vary greatly and should not be backed up like you would with /usr/ or /var/. Mostl

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2.5 when ?

Mark Weaver wrote: "The only other apps that were on the system at the time was a php web site and forum." --- Heh. Yep, those PHP web forums have a squeaky clean track record. *rolling eyes* ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lis

Re: [CentOS] VPN in China for our server [OT?]

Les Bell wrote: "Jason Pyeron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We are setting up a new server (prefer centos4 vs 5) what should we do for a coporate vpn back to the US? << Your first step should be to get on top of the regulations regarding use of cryptography in China. Here's a starting point:

Re: [CentOS] ReiserFS

Bill Campbell wrote: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Hi, >> >>Is their any gotcha when using ResiserFs as a file system? > > We used reiserfs for a while on SuSE systems thinking that it > would be OK because it was the default. Unfortunately I have had > several occassions whe

Re: [CentOS] Re: ReiserFS

Scott Silva wrote: >> On the flipside, perhaps if you call Hans and agree to cover his legal >> bills you can get a good lifetime support contract. :) >> >> Cheers, > Last I heard, he was being investigated for a possible "lifetime > commitment". > But that was a while ago. Heh. Before the topi

Re: [CentOS] Re: Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

Scott Silva wrote: You mean I have to walk to the pub, too? ;-D I'm sure somebody somewhere has written a 1 line perl script (and printed it on a T-shirt) that can magically make beer appear in your hands upon execution. :) ___ CentOS mailin

Re: [CentOS] Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

Alfredo Perez wrote: > I will add to that list, change ssh port 22 to somthing else > Why? Most of the script kiddies now check all the higher ports for ssh too. Moving ssh's port around solves nothing. Cheers, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.o

Re: [CentOS] Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

Milton Calnek wrote: If you don't like the defaults, get anaconda to change them for you. Or write a script that you run shortly after install to make the changes for you. That would be pretty amazing if at the end (or at the beginning) of the install there was some checkbox that said somethi

Re: [CentOS] Sparc

Akemi Yagi wrote: On 7/9/07, Adam Breaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/7/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By chance, has there been any progress on a 5.0 version for an Ultra > Sparc? Debian 4 supports sparc well, has done so for a long time...biggest problem is having to netboot the in

Re: [CentOS] Postfix Question

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've googled around and although I get a lot of hits about postfix smarthost authentication with ssl, I can not find out how to actually accomplish the task. I've read through smatterings of postings from Neophasis and the like searching for just the syntax and what file

Re: [CentOS] RAID hard drive serial numbers?

Tim Verhoeven wrote: On 7/17/07, Scott Ehrlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: smartctl, hdparm, and sdparm all are valuable tools to obtain hard drive info. But, they don't seem to work, at least, on obtaining hard drive info from drives on a Dell PERC controller. Instead, I'm given basic PERC co

Re: [CentOS] RAID hard drive serial numbers?

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: Actually, with 3ware, smartctl *can* see through the adapter to the disks behind it. E.g. (on a 9650): [EMAIL PROTECTED] jlb]$ sudo smartctl -i -d 3ware,0 /dev/twa0 [snip] 'man smartctl' has all the details. Outstanding! I wasn't aware of that. Thanks! Best, _

Re: [CentOS] Flash Media Server 2

Lam, Eric wrote: Hi, I need to install Flash Media Server on a Centos box. When running the installation script, I get a [EMAIL PROTECTED] FMS_2_0_3_r68_linux]# ./installFMS ./fmsini: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file o

Re: [CentOS] Centos as a desktop, advisable?

Ralph Angenendt wrote: Scott Moseman wrote: I'm running CentOS on my server and I don't feel it makes a great desktop since several of the major applications (OpenOffice, Firefox, etc) lag behind since it follows RHEL. I prefer to use something more dynamic and current on the desktop.

Re: [CentOS] alternatives to realnetworks real producer plus and helix server

Robert - elists wrote: In CentOS and Linux land, what reliable alternatives do we have to realnetworks real producer plus and helix server for streaming audio and video ??? For streaming, I wouldn't waste any time at all on Helix server. Apple's Darwin Streaming Server is a much better cho

Re: [CentOS] OT: Suggestions for database for physicians patient records?

Lanny Marcus wrote: This is very OT. If list readers can point me in the right direction, to other mailing lists, or web sites for recommended databases, that will be much appreciated! My wife's doctor wants to move records, for approximately 6000 patients (over a 12 year period), from paper (18

Re: [CentOS] openoffice 2.3 on centos 4.5

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:26:22 -0400 Jerry Geis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: Would I have to be concerned about any issues if I put open office 2.3 on centos 4.5? Anyone done it? Jerry I have it running on a fully updated CentOS 4 ma

[CentOS] Buggy SATA detection w/CentOS5 + Intel H6300ESB?

I've been handed a Supermicro system that is using the Intel® H6300ESB Serial ATA Controller (Supermicro P4SCI motherboard). When I install CentOS5, everything seems to work OK, but it has absolutely horrid disk performance. Upon further inspection, it seems that the SATA disks are being trea

Re: [CentOS] Buggy SATA detection w/CentOS5 + Intel H6300ESB?

Chris Mauritz wrote: I've been handed a Supermicro system that is using the Intel® H6300ESB Serial ATA Controller (Supermicro P4SCI motherboard). When I install CentOS5, everything seems to work OK, but it has absolutely horrid disk performance. Upon further inspection, it seems tha

Re: [CentOS] Supermicro X7DVL-E and Xeon L5320 installation problems

Chris Boyd wrote: Tearing our hair out on this one. Trying to install CentOS 5 x86_64 on a Supermicro X7DVL-E with 2 Xeon L5320 quad core CPUs, 3Ware SATA RAID controller in a mirrored setup and 4 GB of memory. Installation crashes at random places while copying the files. We've run memtest8

[CentOS] CD emulation (a la daemontools)

I was wondering if anyone was aware of a method for mounting virtual CD devices with CD image files. I keep images (.CUE/.BIN pairs) of my CD collection on a NAS appliance tucked away in my closet. I'd like to write a script to mount each one, create ID tags, rip the tracks, then move along t

Re: [CentOS] Safe method to remove old kernels

Scott Moseman wrote: # rpm -qa | grep kernel-2 | sort kernel-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL kernel-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL kernel-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL kernel-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL kernel-2.6.9-42.EL kernel-2.6.9-55.0.2.EL kernel-2.6.9-55.0.6.EL kernel-2.6.9-55.0.9.EL kernel-2.6.9-55.EL I'm running the most recent kernel availab

Re: [CentOS] Installing Skype in CentOS (4.4)

Steven Vishoot wrote: Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: libQtCore.so.4 is needed by package skype Error: Missing Dependency: qt4-x11 >= 4.2 is needed by package skype Error: Missing Dependency: libQtGui.so.4 is needed by package skype Error: Missing Dependency: libQtDBus.s

Re: [CentOS] Site about qmail (with CentOS as SO)

Christopher Chan wrote: It is like a step-by-step book, that intendes to *really* help people getting their servers up and running. I would really rather make qmail newbies go through the flames and really learn how qmail works than let them loose with a list of instructions. Just tell t

Re: [CentOS] Large scale Postfix/Cyrus email system for 100,000+ users

Christopher Chan wrote: I don't recall ever having a problem with postgresql. I guess the latest versions are more crash resilient. But still no builtin replication. This has gotten far afield of CentOS, but recent vintages of Postgresql DO support replication. :) http://www.postgresql.o

Re: [CentOS] Migrate CentOS 3 to 4 to 5?

David Christopher Zentgraf wrote: Hi, After the previous debacle with PHP and MySQL it has been decided that we think about an upgrade from CentOS 3 to 5, since that would solve our problem, if successful. I tried finding information on how to best attempt this, but thanks to a plethora of co

Re: [CentOS] mp3 recorder?

Paul wrote: audacity should be able to do it and is available from rpmforge. My original message (above) says Audacity is not visually showing the audio line levels or wave form when recording, thus I am not convinced it is capturing anything. Which probably is an issue with your

[CentOS] OT: RH 4/5 and 3Ware 9500 firmware upgrades

I've just noticed that 3Ware has a more current version of the firmware for the 9500S than I have on several machines. All of mine are running: 3w-9xxx: scsi0: Firmware FE9X 3.04.00.005, BIOS BE9X 3.04.00.002, Ports: 8. and the latest rev appears to be 3.08. I'm wondering if there is any com

Re: [CentOS] OT: RH 4/5 and 3Ware 9550SX firmware upgrades

Chris Mauritz wrote: I've just noticed that 3Ware has a more current version of the firmware for the 9500S than I have on several machines. All of mine are running: 3w-9xxx: scsi0: Firmware FE9X 3.04.00.005, BIOS BE9X 3.04.00.002, Ports: 8. and the latest rev appears to be 3.08.

Re: [CentOS] OT: RH 4/5 and 3Ware 9550SX firmware upgrades

Karanbir Singh wrote: Chris Mauritz wrote: I threw caution to the wind and updated my firmware (turns out the machines were using 9550SX controllers, not 9500) from 3.04 to 3.08 on a couple of production CentOS 4 and my test CentOS 5 machines. EXT3 performance seems to have improved

Re: [CentOS] Re: Adobe products under Linux?

Scott Silva wrote: I think you should go for windows XP, as support for these apps is much better than in centos IMO and 4 gigs should be fine for a desktop I'm not sure if Windows XP will do 8 cpu's. I don't think it will. I was under the impression that the non-server incarnations were

Re: ****Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 and removing sendmail

Joseph L. Casale wrote: What is it you are trying to accomplish? --nodeps is almost always the WRONG answer. Well, just starting my adventure in learning Linux. My immediate need is a spam gateway, and all the how-to's I find are for distributions I either don't want to use or are very

Re: [CentOS] x86_64 versus i386

Manish Kathuria wrote: Hello, On the Intel Core 2 Duo processor based systems, we have the option of installing either x86_64 or the i386 distribution. I would like to know your experiences with the x86_64 port. How does it compare with the i386 distribution in terms of stability, reliability an

Re: [CentOS] Scary memory requirements for 5.1 graphic install

Stephen John Smoogen wrote: I would say that those systems may not be good candidates for future EL versions. The memory requirements for the Enterprise editions are going up with moore's law as more things get added to the wishbin 'of what everyone wants'. I say this as I look at my 256 MB serve

Re: [CentOS] dovecot errors after upgrade to 5.1

Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Everyone, Looks like my Centos 5.0 mail server upgraded automatically last night to 5.1. It appears to have worked normally until about 16:00 CST when dovecot began to fail. I have rebooted the system to be able to use the 5.1 kernel, but dovecot still continues to fail

Re: [CentOS] SD cards

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to read a 4gb SD HD card class 6 [hispeed], and Centos 5.1 does not recognize it. with dmesg|less I get [1616752.815569] sdf: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00 [1616752.815571] sdf: assuming drive cache: write through [1616754.813229] sdf : READ CAPACITY failed.