Re: [CentOS] Infrastructure HELP!

2009-10-29 Thread Curt Mills
ondorescue.org www.nongnu.org/duplicity (de-dupe, S3) www.nongnu.org/storebackup (de-dupe) amanda backuppc (sourceforge) (rpm in epel) www.backula.org (de-dupe) -- Curt Mills, WE7U hacker at fluke dot com Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin &quo

Re: [CentOS] Infrastructure HELP!

2009-10-29 Thread Curt Mills
ome use though. I've also heard that SATA-2 drives are more like SAS or SCSI drives in this respect, as in they're designed for server duty. I probably heard the above on this very list in the past. Can someone confirm or deny? Making me look like a fool is ok, I'm used to i

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-02 Thread Curt Mills
real hair-puller otherwise. I don't know whether current Unix/Linux systems behave in the same manner, but SunOS/Solaris used to. -- Curt Mills, WE7U hacker at fluke dot com Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at

Re: [CentOS] Keeping iptables in sync across multiple machines

2009-11-02 Thread Curt Mills
s one? 0.99pl92 That's a linux kernel from the time when Linus just would _not_ bump it up to v1.0 and move on. He stayed with 0.99 versions for a lonnng time. -- Curt Mills, WE7U hacker at fluke dot com Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin "Lotto: A

Re: [CentOS] Free or low cost online backup?

2009-11-02 Thread Curt Mills
If it were me, I'd probably encrypt and compress my data before saving it to an external site. -- Curt Mills, WE7U hacker at fluke dot com Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Window

Re: [CentOS] Some basic LVM questions

2009-11-09 Thread Curt Mills
n out you can move things around a bit and go with either LVM or with larger mirrored drives. Drives are cheap. -- Curt Mills, WE7U hacker at fluke dot com Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "

Re: [CentOS] Some basic LVM questions

2009-11-09 Thread Curt Mills
th RAID5, ANY two drives going out means you lose it all. I'm not a big fan of RAID5 at the moment. Yes, I had good backups! -- Curt Mills, WE7U hacker at fluke dot com Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math."

[CentOS] Upgrade fm 4.7 to 5.3: mptscsi module?

2009-07-31 Thread Curt Mills
em are. I expected the upgrade off DVD and then the "yum update" to take care of most of those. -- Curt Mills, WE7Uhacker at fluke dot com Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math!" "Windows: Microsoft's tax on

[CentOS] Python 2.4 64-bit problem w/CentOS5.3?

2009-08-04 Thread Curt Mills
cy: /usr/lib64/python2.4 is needed by package libxslt-python-1.1.17-2.el5_2.2.x86_64 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/lib64/python2.4 is needed by package libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.x86_64 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/lib64/python2.4 is needed by package gamin-python-0.1.7-8

Re: [CentOS] Python 2.4 64-bit problem w/CentOS5.3?

2009-08-05 Thread Curt Mills
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 16:18, Curt Mills wrote: >> I'm getting this on two XF_64 systems by running "yum update" today. >> Perhaps Python 2.4 is missing some lib64 libraries? > > It's a known problem, appa

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 live-cd install -

2009-08-10 Thread Curt Mills
ith lots of noise on the long rural phone lines for years... -- Curt Mills, WE7Uhacker at fluke dot com Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math!" "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates!" -- WE7U "Th

Re: [CentOS] yum update

2009-08-13 Thread Curt Mills
t yet then I can fix things up with a subset of the above 'cuz the DRBD drive will still be mounted. The above is probably necessary because I'm doing something wrong... Do I need to break the cluster before the update so that Apache2 doesn't touch the DRBD drive/drbdlinks stuff, then

Re: [CentOS] yum update

2009-08-13 Thread Curt Mills
a little bit with it. Thanks. It makes sense and is easy to implement. -- Curt Mills, WE7Uhacker at fluke dot com Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math!" "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates!" --

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Conference room software

2009-09-04 Thread Curt Mills
calendar plugins added? http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/SearchByTags?tag=calendar -- Curt Mills, WE7U hacker at fluke dot com Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft'

Re: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

2009-09-22 Thread Curt Mills
got to click on the final button to get the install up and running, > and now in your semi drunk state, you click it, and go off and have > another two beers! When you come back Voila! A new clean virgin > CentOS install! Why can't more manuals be written like this ;-) -- C

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-24 Thread Curt Mills
e I make (rare) exceptions, but my kids are already showing me a thing or two these days about Linux so I needn't worry about them anymore. -- Curt Mills, WE7U hacker at fluke dot com Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad