Re: [CentOS] Re: are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

2007-12-08 Thread Lamar Owen
ompatible at a low level with EPEL's package of the same program, you have work to do. Noting repository incompatibilities is a user issue; arguing/debating the merits of the repos and trying to collaborate is, as you have correctly noted, a developer issue. -- Lamar Owen Chief Informatio

Re: [CentOS] Scalix Doesn't recommend Centos... Use Zimbra instead ; -)

2008-01-19 Thread Lamar Owen
e tweak, been able to use Scalix on CentOS 4 and 5 for a long time; I've been using Scalix on CentOS 4 for quite a while now. It's just not 'officially supported' for production by scalix. -- Lamar Owen www.pari.edu ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] KStars on CentOS 4.4?

2007-08-03 Thread Lamar Owen
ve used and currently use KDE-RedHat with several CentOS 4 installs, to get KStars for us to do telescope control. The KDE in CentOS 4 is quite old, and kstars has improved by leaps and bounds since then. -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive R

[CentOS] HotPlug, eSATA, and /media

2007-08-03 Thread Lamar Owen
USB drive) and it would unmount the drive and unload anything it might need to unload. Anybody have this working? If not, i'm going to figure it out, but didn't want to reinvent the wheel. -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive R

Re: [CentOS] HotPlug, eSATA, and /media

2007-08-03 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday 03 August 2007, Feizhou wrote: > Lamar Owen wrote: > > I have an eSATA drive, a 750GB Seagate in an eSATA external enclosure, > > and a Silicon Image sil3132 ExpressCard controller for my laptop. The > > disk and controller work great in CentOS 5 (or F7, f

RE: [CentOS] How do I Get Notified of REPO Updates?

2007-08-21 Thread Lamar Owen
po on it, and it will list the updates that you need (not all available updates, though). If you need something that lists all new updates, whether you need them or not, you have more work to do.  But the python code of yum would be a good place to start. -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Office

Re: [CentOS] Hot swap SATA?

2007-08-21 Thread Lamar Owen
able SCSI removable support (dig through the udev and hotplug stuff sometime and you'll see what I mean) in libata as yet. With SCSI removable support (which usbstorage implements, which is why it works) the system Just Works properly. -- Lamar Owen

RE: [CentOS] Hot swap SATA?

2007-08-22 Thread Lamar Owen
stack with libata. All IDE and ATA drives under later kernels will be libata supported, and will show up as /dev/sdx drives. -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC  28772 828-862-5554 www.pari.edu Alfred _

RE: [CentOS] SATA vs. SAS

2007-08-22 Thread Lamar Owen
athing through two Qlogic 4Gb/s PCIe 4x FC controllers was 125MB/s or so, RAID5 5 drive RAID groups and 1.95TB LUNs. EMC and IBM both made it clear that they consider SATA second tier well below FC; but FC is, of course, much more expensive. -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astron

RE: [CentOS] Who does snapshots other than Network Appliance?

2007-08-22 Thread Lamar Owen
t that's because we are only doing VMware ESX direct attached hosts, with a single host per CLARiiON, and I'm using VMware's snapshots for those instances where I need snaps.  Not getting SnapView meant I could get more terabytes. -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisga

Re: [CentOS] Hot swap SATA?

2007-08-23 Thread Lamar Owen
nectors are there? I have seen a few motherboards use the Intel ICH ports as the first two, then put either a Promise or SiliconImage controller on the board to handle the other two or four ports (typically labeled as being 'RAID' ports). The ICH will show as /dev/hdx, and the SiI o

Re: [CentOS] Hot swap SATA?

2007-08-23 Thread Lamar Owen
that is by itself. Maybe if it had been > connected to one of the other three, it would have been /dev/sda (or / > dev/sdb). Ok, run a 'lspci' and see if it lists two controllers. -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC

Re: [CentOS] Samba and Scalix

2007-08-24 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday 24 August 2007, Wei Yu wrote: > I think Scalix community edition does not support shared folders. Yes, it does, up to 25 users. Using it here. -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.

Re: [CentOS] external sata cages that use port multipliers

2007-08-24 Thread Lamar Owen
ml to find it. -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Package Tracking System

2007-08-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Server Gremlin wrote: > I'm used to Debian where I can view a changelog for each *Debian* > specific package. Is there > anything like that in CentOS? rpm -qi --changelog -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institut

Re: [CentOS] Package Tracking System

2007-08-31 Thread Lamar Owen
--changelog will work just fine. -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Re: KDE-Repos

2007-09-10 Thread Lamar Owen
ich is one reason I use it on several desktops. It gives you a much updated userland with the stable kernel base. But, if you across a bug in one of the libraries KDE-Rehat replaces, you will hten need to take it up with the KDE-Redhat maintainer and not file it as a bug report in CentOS. --

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-11 Thread Lamar Owen
meone is interested we can look at > it. > > If hardware access is not a possibility, then machines fast enough to run > the emulators might be an option too. What is the minimum for actual hardware? I have a small s390 here that I've been looking for a reason to power up. Wha

Re: [CentOS] Re: centos] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday 11 September 2007, R P Herrold wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Lamar Owen wrote: > > What is the minimum for actual hardware? I have a small > > s390 here that I've been looking for a reason to power up. > > What sort of access is needed? > > Goodnes

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on s390; was: CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday 14 September 2007, R P Herrold wrote: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Lamar Owen wrote: > > If someone would like to donate a midsized 208VAC-capable > > (single-phase OK, but has to be 208 and not 240, or at least > > jumperable) UPS to the effort, about a 3000VA unit or so

[OT] Re: [CentOS] Re: centos] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-14 Thread Lamar Owen
ve to talk. Perhaps even for CentOS mirroring and/or building. Peter Arremann visited us a while back (by the way, Peter: good article in LJ, and thanks again for the UltraSPARC goodies!); he could fill you in on how it was when he visited. -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Offic

Re: [CentOS] Re: centos] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-14 Thread Lamar Owen
[Administrivia: should this be on CentOS-devel instead of the regular CentOS list? If so, please redirect.] On Friday 14 September 2007, Lamar Owen wrote: > Whew. As typical, you have thoroughly thought through things. Let me see > if the beast will power up and whether the OS/2 c

Re: [CentOS] Choosing VPN Server

2007-09-20 Thread Lamar Owen
;m not sure, as I don't have extra repos enabled on any of my CentOS 5 boxes). Windows L2TP VPN's are the most secure, being PPP over L2TP over IPsec, without the holes that have plagued PPTP (PPP over L2TP does essentiall the same thing PPTP does, but in a more secure and standard manner).

Re: [CentOS] How to export X displays

2007-10-15 Thread Lamar Owen
there is xrdp which allows a Linux box to serve RDP sessions. See http://xrdp.sourceforge.net/ -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ___ CentOS mailing li

Re: [CentOS] hardware problem with 5.6

2011-01-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, January 14, 2011 12:58:47 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Dumb question: have you contacted Dell? They *do* support Linux, and RHEL > (at least on their servers). See if they have a driver, or can point you > to one. They also support Ubuntu on certain machines, and RHEL on some if not mos

Re: [CentOS] Intel DH67BL + CentOS 5.5 IRQ #177 nobody cared

2011-01-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 12:35:18 pm Drew Weaver wrote: > The kernel boots fine, and everything works ok until you unplug the monitor > from the DVI port on the motherboard. > > When you unplug the monitor, that IRQ/ACPI message is displayed, and it > screws up the USB and the e1000 card i

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 12:55:19 pm Les Mikesell wrote: > And remember that firefox/openoffice are rare exceptions in RHEL/Centos > in that they have had major-version updates since the distro release, > even though they still are far behind 'current' now. How is Firefox 3.6.13 not curre

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 04:26:57 pm Robert Heller wrote: > At Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:00:21 +0100 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:09 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > > > the LiveCD will not install the operating system. It is purely for > > > demo or diagnostic purposes

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 05:09:25 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Yeah - I hate the Fedora way. Why not *ask* where you want to install the > liveCD? Why force it into /boot, when until now, *everyone* has kept boot > at about 100M or so? The last one I did from LiveCD was prior to the need for

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, January 20, 2011 03:54:45 am Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Yup, and it totally defeats the purpose of what the OP actually wanted > todo. Imagine your account being busy with your year-end books, and > has to run to the toilet (she is a bit sick) now you come and press > CTRL+ALT+Bksp and loose

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, January 20, 2011 06:02:38 am Giles Coochey wrote: > Data and Accounts are distinct, and the policies regarding their use > should be distinct too. +1. The third 'A' of triple-A (AAA) is accountability. If you share accounts you defeat accountability. This has nothing to do with

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 06:38:12 pm Scott Robbins wrote: > Boot has to be huge in Fedora for the preupgrade to have a chance of > working--having given up on it several releases ago, I have no idea if > it's been improved or not. This is obviously straying from the topicality of this list,

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, January 20, 2011 09:36:09 am Ross Walker wrote: > With Amazon's cloud services now I guess they'll have to cut it down to 7 > days, or require finger print or retinal eye scans... Fingerprints are too easily faked. Mythbusters did it in a 'Crime and Mythdemeanors' episode a few yea

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:03:27 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Lamar Owen wrote: > > Fingerprints are too easily faked. Mythbusters did it in a 'Crime and > > Mythdemeanors' episode a few years ago. > I can beat that: I read, a month or so ago, how a bunch

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:52:48 am m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Lamar Owen wrote: > > mechanism has been improved at least between F13 and F14, as I did do a > > preupgrade on my development/testing box, which will likely go to CentOS 6 > > or SL6 some time RSN. > >

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:53:52 am Parshwa Murdia wrote: > You say for SL6, would it sometimes prove better than stable CentOS? As Les said, it depends by what you consider to be 'better.' I consider them to be roughly equivalent, with SL having some advantages (mostly of perception in m

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, January 20, 2011 01:57:54 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > We (the Feds) are using PIV cards, which have passkeys, and, of course, > the username. I prefer what I have from my employer: the RSA keyfobs. No > trouble at all, *and* you need the username, keyfob and a pin. Our co-lo site is

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, January 20, 2011 03:11:00 pm Mike McCarty wrote: > That does not preclude access to the machine's content. Anyone > with root access should be able to do that. You shouldn't > have to log in AS THAT USER in order to access the computer's > content. Although I have seen in the case of

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, January 20, 2011 05:53:14 pm Ross Walker wrote: > I haven't heard of someone lifting a latent oil print > and creating a fake out of that. I'm sure with enough ingenuity it can > be done. Let me repeat: that is exactly what MythBusters did in the episode I referenced, 'Crime and My

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, January 21, 2011 01:09:37 am Parshwa Murdia wrote: > What made me > think for this comparison was the simple question why did Fermi Labs > and CERN chose SL and developing but they didn't go for other distros, > keeping in mind always that all the distros have their own pros and > cons b

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, January 21, 2011 11:01:01 am Les Mikesell wrote: > The first few RHEL releases sort of looked like the same > pattern where there would be 2 fedora versions replacing the X.0, X.1 > RH's with the 3rd in the set being RHEL, but it didn't stay that way > very long and quickly got to the

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, January 21, 2011 12:34:57 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Haven't seen the kernel break things, with the exception of *sigh* NVidia > drivers I've also seen it reorder ethernet ports, but finally found > the simple solution (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx, and add > the HWADD

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, January 21, 2011 01:33:03 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Lamar Owen wrote: > > On Friday, January 21, 2011 12:34:57 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Haven't seen the kernel break things, with the exception of *sigh* > >> NVidia drivers I've als

[CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday (was:Re: Is it okay?)

2011-01-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, January 21, 2011 01:29:14 pm John R Pierce wrote: > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo > ... > model name : Pentium III (Katmai) > cpu MHz : 451.031 > ... Being that it's Friday (note that this output isn't snipped; kernel 2.0.36 doesn't grab the CPU frequency apparently!): [root@loc

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, January 21, 2011 02:13:54 pm John R Pierce wrote: > The > P3-450 running my network now draws about 70 watts average per my > Kill-A-Watt, which really isn't that bad. Kaill-a-watts are great little devices If you can find a cast-off Nomadix HotSpot gateway, you can save a lot of

Re: [CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday

2011-01-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, January 21, 2011 02:35:40 pm Les Mikesell wrote: > On 1/21/2011 1:28 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > For that matter, I'm looking for a distribution I can put on DiskOnChip and > > run on some embedded PC104 5x86/133 systems I have. :-) > Except for things wi

[CentOS] [OT] old kit uses, and security stuff (was:Re: Is it okay?)

2011-01-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, January 21, 2011 02:35:11 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I have a friend with several RISC 6000's, and of course his MicroVAX. You > had a PDP-8? When I was taking an o/s class in the mid-eighties, I was on > a PDP-11/780. *Nice* machine, running RSTS, I think it was. Hmm, I wondernop

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Jan 21, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: If you can find a cast-off Nomadix HotSpot gateway, you can save a lot of power and get something more speedy at the same time. It's a custom-labelled Portwell NAD-2050; if you can find one they're neat. Lot less than 70 watts; cl

Re: [CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday (was:Re: Is it okay?)

2011-01-24 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, January 21, 2011 10:36:00 pm Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > The problem with many of these special purpose distros is that they are > usually poorly maintained wrt updates. A minimal install of a mainstream > distro like CentOS shouldn't take up much more than a GB, and if you put > in

Re: [CentOS] RHEL-6 vs. CentOS-5.5 (was: Static assignment of, SCSI device names?)

2011-02-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, February 02, 2011 02:06:15 am Chuck Munro wrote: > The real key is to carefully label each SATA cable and its associated > drive. Then the little mapping script can be used to identify the > faulty drive which mdadm reports by its device name. It just occurred > to me that whenev

Re: [CentOS] how to move forward/undo/revert/fix re: a failed CentOS 5.5 to SL 5.5 migration ... [SOLVED?]

2011-02-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, February 02, 2011 09:31:43 am Larry Vaden wrote: > "* The host/dig/nslookup utilities queried only servers from > resolv.conf. With this update, the utilities query the servers > specified on command line instead of in resolv.conf and the issue is > resolved. ( BZ#561299)" > > The of

Re: [CentOS] RHEL-6 vs. CentOS-5.5

2011-02-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, February 02, 2011 08:04:43 pm Les Mikesell wrote: > I think there are ways that drives can fail that would make them not be > detected > at all - and for an autodetected raid member in a system that has been > rebooted, > not leave much evidence of where it was when it worked. If

[CentOS] Supermicro, SATA, and palimpsest (was:Re: CentOS Digest, Vol 73, Issue 3)

2011-02-03 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, February 03, 2011 01:38:35 pm Chuck Munro wrote: > On 02/03/2011 09:00 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > But my personal box is a used SuperMicro dual Xeon I got at the depth of > > the recession in December 2009 > Less than $500 for a Supermicro box? Holy crap, Batman!

Re: [CentOS] system clock

2011-02-07 Thread Lamar Owen
On Sunday, February 06, 2011 04:35:48 pm Buz Davis wrote: > I am running CntOS 5 with Gnome. Is > there a simple way to adjust the time? Use system-config-date (in the GNOME menu: System/Administration/Date&Time) Make sure 'System clock uses UTC' is unchecked in the timezone tab if you dual

Re: [CentOS] Ken Olsen od DEC, 1927-2011

2011-02-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, February 08, 2011 08:21:38 pm Jay Leafey wrote: > Much as I love Linux, I'd still prefer to be running VMS on an x86 > desktop box! 1.) Get an OpenVMS hobbyist media kit and license for OpenVMS/VAX. 2.) Install simh from a third-party CentOS repository, or from source. ( simh.trai

Re: [CentOS] how will CentOS handle the perftools 1.7 vs. 1.6 issue?

2011-02-10 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, February 10, 2011 06:42:48 am Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Larry, could you please stop spamming this list with problems you see on > the SL list? Thanks. This package isn't even part of CentOS. While google perftools is not a part of either SL or CentOS, it *is* in EPEL, and CentOS users

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 64 bit php 5.2 huge problem

2011-02-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, February 12, 2011 05:18:14 pm Peter Ivanov wrote: > the server worked, but suddenly mysql connectivity dissapeared. > when i try to run any mysql related functionality if givem me the error: > Call to undefined function mysql_connect() Can you connect with the command line mysqlclien

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 64 bit php 5.2 huge problem

2011-02-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, February 12, 2011 05:37:00 pm Peter Ivanov wrote: > HI Lamar, > > thanks for the reply. > > I can connect with the > > mysqlclient Can you post the output of yum list | grep ^mysql please? And the output of rpm -V mysql And the output of rpm -ql mysql please? __

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 64 bit php 5.2 huge problem

2011-02-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, February 12, 2011 05:59:52 pm Peter Ivanov wrote: > Hi Lamar, > > here they are > [root@host ~]# rpm -V mysql > S.5. c /etc/my.cnf > prelink: /usr/bin/my_print_defaults: at least one of file's dependencies > has changed since prelinking > S.?./usr/bin/my_print_defaults

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 64 bit php 5.2 huge problem

2011-02-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, February 12, 2011 07:03:59 pm Peter Ivanov wrote: > My mysql.so is about 50K .. is that nornal No; the ones here are three times that size: [root@localhost ~]# ls -l /usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient*.so.15.0.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1517784 Nov 3 19:54 /usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 64 bit php 5.2 huge problem

2011-02-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Feb 12, 2011, at 7:28 PM, Peter Ivanov wrote: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib64/php/modules/ mysql.so' - libmysqlclient.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0 Run ldd /usr/lib64/php/modules/mysql.so and list the output.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 64 bit php 5.2 huge problem

2011-02-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Feb 12, 2011, at 7:57 PM, Peter Ivanov wrote: ln -s /usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15 /usr/lib64/ libmysqlclient.so.15 solved my problem is this file link permanent? The fact you have to do that link indicates a deeper issue; did you run the ldd line first, and can you post that ou

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-18 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, February 18, 2011 02:54:38 pm Ray Van Dolson wrote: > In an industry where one-man companies are not uncommon, you learn to > never read too much into titles. :) True enough. While my title is 'CIO' it probably should be 'IT Department' as I only have a consultant and a group of volun

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-18 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, February 18, 2011 03:36:58 pm Ray Van Dolson wrote: > Obviously always exceptions but as you alluded to, "know your > audience" is a good rule of thumb. Public Speaking 101. Also 'Linux Distribution 101' in reality; the CentOS audience consists largely of those wanting as close

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-18 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, February 18, 2011 01:39:48 pm Farkas Levente wrote: > and please don't ask me to why. just to mention some very basic thing > where is the mock config files? and i can ask dozens of such questions > (what is did previously and i'm the only only one who send detail > description how to re

Re: [CentOS] BInd Problem or Update SSL ?

2011-02-18 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, February 18, 2011 04:15:28 pm Always Learning wrote: > > From: Larry Vaden > > Our site running Centos 4.8 and 5.5 name servers was hacked with > > the result that www.yahoo.com is now within our /19 and causing > > some grief. > > Don't understand what you mean by 'within our /19'.

Re: [CentOS] BInd Problem or Update SSL ?

2011-02-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, February 19, 2011 12:57:40 am Larry Vaden wrote: > Through this experience, > starting with a hacked or poisoned name server, or, quite frankly, the > perception of one, I have learned what people really see. Having a server hacked is one of the worst things that can happen in IT; no

Re: [CentOS] BInd Problem or Update SSL ?

2011-02-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, February 19, 2011 01:51:55 am Larry Vaden wrote: > My trust in RedHat went down when I learned they are not shipping all > the SRPMs. Some say it is due to human error. If that is the case, > why should I think they are better at backporting security fixes than > at making sure a man

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-22 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, February 22, 2011 11:25:45 am Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > We strive to present to the world a BUG-FOR-BUG-IDENTICAL distribution > of the corresponding RHEL release. That's pretty well covered by the line on that page saying: "Under normal circumstances CentOS will NOT add patches to o

Re: [CentOS] security cameras

2011-02-25 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, February 24, 2011 08:25:35 pm Chuck Munro wrote: > Open-source software such as ZoneMinder works with cameras from several > manufacturers, and runs on CentOS. I personally haven't tried it, but I > understand it works well. I'm running a zoneminder instance on CentOS 5 under VMwar

Re: [CentOS] can't create large LVM, even though pvscan shows enough space left

2011-02-25 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, February 25, 2011 08:15:34 am Rudi Ahlers wrote: > [root@francois-pc ~]# lvcreate -L 500gig -n 500G freenas > Insufficient free extents (127999) in volume group freenas: 128000 required > How do I actually create a 500GB volume? try lvcreate -l 127999 -n 500G freenas The default '50

Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

2011-02-25 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, February 25, 2011 11:04:23 am Les Mikesell wrote: > RHEL5 was never a 'supported' > platform, so a stable module wasn't included. According to VMware's documentation, RHEL5 was and is a fully supported platform for VMware Server 2.0 (see page 26 of the current 'VMware Server User's

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, March 03, 2011 01:20:06 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > Compare against CIFS/Samba shares or NFS exports bewteen booted > host/guests. You get native filesystem support (under the host/guest as > relevant), and mappings via CIFS/Samba and/or NFS/NIS+. > > The win is still virtualization.

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-03 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, March 03, 2011 03:55:48 pm John R. Dennison wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 10:11:52AM -0500, Digimer wrote: > > > > How about the rest of you? What are you looking forward to in CentOS 6 > > when it is released? > > The whiners stop whining is what I'm most looking forward to

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, March 03, 2011 03:55:48 pm Les Mikesell wrote: > But you can usually run the one that is picky as the host OS and the > other(s) virtualized. You really don't know what you're talking about in this case, Les. The specific machine that I'm talking about needs access to Harrison Mi

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, March 03, 2011 04:04:42 pm Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Although it's not there yet, I'm sure we'll get there sooner than expected To be fair to VMware Fusion on OS X, the graphics acceleration is fantastic, running Windows 7 in full Aero mode with no problems. But it still can't keep accu

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, March 03, 2011 04:24:14 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > I think I addressed that reality. Part of it, yes. > For some needs, you need to be on > bare metal, though whether this is accomplished via multi-booting or > multiple systems (if you're doing professional music editing, presumabl

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, March 03, 2011 04:44:58 pm Les Mikesell wrote: > So there are actually apps that work in Linux that aren't available for > OS X? Yep. For one example, there are the LinuxDSP plugins. There are others. > I'm kind of surprised that a local disk controller would be better in > that

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, March 03, 2011 06:55:56 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > I thought a bit about that when posting earlier. I still disagree WRT > dual-booting. And no, virtualization doesn't need twice the hardware by > a long shot (aggregated load averaging, shared componentry, and a host > of other savin

Re: [CentOS] Updating hardware clock from cron

2011-03-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, March 04, 2011 03:54:21 pm John R Pierce wrote: > just setup NTP and forget about it, and it will always work right, > unless your system is really badly broken, whereupon, it would be better > to fix it than to continue to hack around like this. For the sake of the archives, VMware g

Re: [CentOS] Updating hardware clock from cron

2011-03-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, March 04, 2011 04:05:43 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Excuse me? The last time I was following this closely, and I think the > last time I looked, about a year ago, they said the opposite, that the > guest, if running Linux, should use ntp. > > Right: > NTP Recommendations > Note: In all

Re: [CentOS] Will CentOS become obsolete now because of the changes Red Hat is implementing?

2011-03-05 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, March 05, 2011 05:07:10 am Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Can any of the CentOS team please comment on this? One did, and he's quoted in the article referenced. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, March 08, 2011 04:44:54 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > I'd very strongly recommend you configure netconsole. Ok, now this is useful indeed. Thanks for the information, even though I'm not the OP While I suspected the facility might be there, I hadn't really dug for it, but if this

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 03:24:48 am Leen de Braal wrote: > While you open the case, check for the bulging capacitor problem. > Will have the effect you describe, freezing up the system so that even > bios routines don't work (your fans). > If that's the case, replace mainboard. I've seen capa

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 10:16:34 am Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > This would be far cheaper than the time spent troubleshooting the > running (sometimes hanging) system. Let me interject here, that from a budgeting standpoint 'cheaper' has to be interpreted in the context of which budget the co

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 10:48:29 am m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Lamar Owen wrote: > > Heat and airflow are two others. > Hmmm... has the a/c been changed lately? Or maybe stuff outside the rack > been moved, and so obstructed the airflow? To followup a little, I had a mothe

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 11:45:06 am Les Mikesell wrote: > And if you are running Centos the one thing you > don't need is to pay for extra licenses to cover the backup/development > instances. And this is significant, and really highlights the reasoning of the CentOS team in 'bug-for'bug'

Re: [CentOS] kernel vulnerabilities

2011-03-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 11:48:55 am Peter Kjellström wrote: > The kernel you're expecting is not an update for 5.5 but a part of 5.6. 5.6 > (along with 4.9 and 6.0) is currently being built and tested by the CentOS > team. Minor correction: 4.9 is released: [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/red

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-10 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, March 10, 2011 05:35:29 am Rudi Ahlers wrote: > I prefer to use a dust blower instead. It doesn't risk pulling loose > components with "dry" or loose "soldering" I use both: antistatic canned air to blow the dust and a metal-tubed vacuum rested on a part of the case away from any boa

Re: [CentOS] Admin stuff

2011-03-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, March 21, 2011 05:55:48 pm Alain Péan wrote: > Le 21/03/2011 22:53, Greg Bailey a écrit : > > On 3/21/2011 2:52 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Is there something odd going on? The question about the errors in mcelog > >> just showed up *again*, and it's the original that I answered thi

Re: [CentOS] Duplicate Mails

2011-03-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, March 21, 2011 07:53:04 pm Max Hetrick wrote: > If anyone is using Thunderbird, there's a handy add-on called Remove > Duplicate Messages on Mozilla's add-on site. As a pointer, the kmail I'm using, from within Kontact, also can do de-duplication; click 'Folder' then 'Remove Duplicate

Re: [CentOS] Some relevant information

2011-03-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 09:56:34 am Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > Understood. I'd like to replicate or examine the error. "Building it > yourself", without that access to your unique build environment or a > way to gracefully replicate it, represents dozens or hundreds of > man-hours for each con

Re: [CentOS] Installing IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-24 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, March 24, 2011 07:46:11 am Andreas Calvo wrote: > I'm trying to install IMA (http://linux-ima.sourceforge.net/) on > CentOS 5.5, but the shipped kernel does not support it. > One solution is to install a 2.6.30 kernel, but I don't really like this idea. > Does anybody has tried to inst

Re: [CentOS] Installing IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-24 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:30:43 am Akemi Yagi wrote: > Building and installing the RT kernel is a bit involving. Yep, but it is an upstream-supported option. I've been working with the CCRMA RT kernel for a long time now in professional low-latency audio, so the RT kernel and I get along o

Re: [CentOS] Remote-logging nginx? (or other non-syslog-enabled stuff)

2011-03-24 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, March 24, 2011 04:23:38 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > I'm looking for suggestions as to a good general method of > remote-logging services such as nginx or anything else which doesn't > support syslog natively. logger It's part of util-linux, and should be on every CentOS box, unless so

Re: [CentOS] Remote-logging nginx? (or other non-syslog-enabled stuff)

2011-03-24 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, March 24, 2011 04:44:00 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 16:35 Thu 24 Mar, Lamar Owen (lo...@pari.edu) wrote: > > On Thursday, March 24, 2011 04:23:38 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > I'm looking for suggestions as to a good general method of > > > remote-l

Re: [CentOS] Remote-logging nginx? (or other non-syslog-enabled stuff)

2011-03-24 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, March 24, 2011 05:37:41 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 17:14 Thu 24 Mar, Lamar Owen (lo...@pari.edu) wrote: > > Prior to PostgreSQL supporting syslog I used [logger] to > > pipe PostgreSQL output to syslog. Worked fine. > I haven't, looking at it. It is one op

Re: [CentOS] Remote-logging nginx? (or other non-syslog-enabled stuff)

2011-03-25 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, March 24, 2011 06:52:24 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > Right, and the general solution also generalizes to other tools. > Postgresql (which we aren't using currently) also has its own log > handler (a small frustration of mine with the database). PostgreSQL has had syslog support since ve

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, March 25, 2011 09:55:34 pm Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > I'm speaking up for our CentOS repackagers here. That kind of > bootstrapping takes cycles and practice, and double checking. In > theory, they could. Our CentOS rebuilders have exposed a few > dependencies for which the SRPM's are no

Re: [CentOS] {OT] Re: Installing IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, March 25, 2011 03:35:29 pm Les Mikesell wrote: > If 'get there' is defined as all redundant copies being in a consistent > state, then you'll fail at this point in transactional mode in the > fairly likely event that you have a network blip between the db master > and slave(s) or one

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