Re: [CentOS] Changes at Red Hat confouding CentOS

2011-11-15 Thread Rob Kampen
Timothy Murphy wrote: Reindl Harald wrote: But isn't everyone today using laptops for everyday use? this is what some braindead developers seems to think but it is not true nor will it never get true! why in the world should i use a laptop in my office if i can have a Core i7 Quad c

Re: [CentOS] Changes at Red Hat confouding CentOS

2011-11-16 Thread Rob Kampen
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Vreme: 11/16/2011 07:55 AM, Christopher Chan piše: On Tuesday, November 15, 2011 11:30 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Vreme: 11/15/2011 04:14 PM, Rob Kampen piše: run a virtualbox with windoze XP for a realtor app that only works on IE (yeah, go

Re: [CentOS] hello

2011-11-29 Thread Rob Kampen
LinuxIsOne wrote: Hello, I am a Windows convert basically, but as a newbie, thinking of stability and a virus free OS, and the features like that of a server, I have come here. Well said that I am absolutely new, I would know the things in the course of time, since it is different from my daily

Re: [CentOS] duqu

2011-11-30 Thread Rob Kampen
Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:05 PM, wrote: Are your root passwords strong? I've always wondered why something as complex as sshd doesn't do anything to protect you from the simplest form of attack - like rate-limiting failed attempts. Passwords?? Why? Remote ro

Re: [CentOS] duqu

2011-11-30 Thread Rob Kampen
Benjamin Donnachie wrote: On 30 Nov 2011, at 18:51, Les Mikesell wrote: Ssh is mostly about being able to log in. I've always adopted the policy of disabling root logins, making admins use a separate account with public/private key authentication and then requiring them to use su to

[CentOS] Intel SE7210TP1-E giving memory errors

2011-12-04 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi List, I've been getting the following EDAC memory errors EDAC MC0: CE page 0xeb0dd, offset 0x0, grain 4096, syndrome 0x45, row 3, channel 0, label "": i82875p CE and from this seeing that these errors have been corrected. Checking cat /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/csrow3/ch0_ce_count gives

Re: [CentOS] Intel SE7210TP1-E giving memory errors

2011-12-05 Thread Rob Kampen
Rob Kampen wrote: Hi List, I've been getting the following EDAC memory errors EDAC MC0: CE page 0xeb0dd, offset 0x0, grain 4096, syndrome 0x45, row 3, channel 0, label "": i82875p CE and from this seeing that these errors have been corrected. Checking cat /sys/devices/system/eda

Re: [CentOS] Intel SE7210TP1-E giving memory errors

2011-12-05 Thread Rob Kampen
John R Pierce wrote: On 12/05/11 12:17 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: Swapped the memory between DIMM 2A and DIMM 2B - still get fault in row 3, channel 0 - thus did not move with the RAM?? Next reboot I'll try swapping 1A and 1B often an indication the problem is board/socket related r

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Rob Kampen
Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:31 AM, wrote: I just went through the archives to see what people are doing for backups, and here is what I found : - amanda - bacula - BackupPC - FreeNAS You missed rsync. Rsync is another one-off approach where you have to roll

[CentOS] asus-wmi.ko for Asus G73Sw running CentOS 6.2

2011-12-28 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi List, Just loaded our favorite OS onto my new ASUS laptop. Practically everything worked out of the box - I used the live DVD to check things out and installed from there. I have followed http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/553474-g73-asus-wmi-linux-driver-i-need-your-hel

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 x86_64 can't detect raid 10

2011-12-30 Thread Rob Kampen
On 12/31/2011 04:31 PM, David wrote: > Dear All, > > I just got a new server with the following specifications: > motherboard : Intel S5500BC > CPU : Xeon Quad Core 2.6Ghz > RAM : 8GB > HDD : 4 x 2TB SATA with configured raid 10 using raid embedded > server. > > The problem

[CentOS] upgrade of 32bit to 64 bit CentOS 5.7

2012-01-07 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi List, Early in dec I was forced to upgrade one of my server systems - initially built in 2004 on an intel server mb it finally failed. Under some time pressure, I replaced the mb etc with a 64 bit asus system and did a repair of the linux system upon reboot with a 64 bit DVD. As one can imagin

Re: [CentOS] upgrade of 32bit to 64 bit CentOS 5.7

2012-01-08 Thread Rob Kampen
On 01/09/2012 05:00 AM, Brian Mathis wrote: > On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: >> Hi List, >> Early in dec I was forced to upgrade one of my server systems - >> initially built in 2004 on an intel server mb it finally failed. >> Under some time pres

Re: [CentOS] USB install annoyances (not OT)[SOLVED]

2012-01-10 Thread Rob Kampen
On 01/11/2012 10:31 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Yet another denial - it's as though it's also blocking me based on the > relationship of included text vs. new text. > > blah, blah, blah. Let's see if this is enough new text to get through. > > Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane wrote: >

[CentOS] postfix - reject of incoming mail due to helo check??

2012-02-02 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi list, I have been getting the following types of log messages Jan 30 08:22:33 ndgonline postfix/smtpd[30538]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[71.46.229.50]: 450 4.7.1 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [71.46.229.50]; from= to= proto=ESMTP helo= a rdns check shows all is we

Re: [CentOS] postfix - reject of incoming mail due to helo check??

2012-02-02 Thread Rob Kampen
On 02/03/2012 06:35 AM, Ned Slider wrote: > On 02/02/12 15:44, Giles Coochey wrote: >> On 2012-02-02 15:39, Ned Slider wrote: >>> I would recommend removing reject_unknown_client from your >>> smtpd_sender_restrictions. >>> I think this will allow the mail through - but when I look at my logs just

Re: [CentOS] Tools to change ssh password easily

2012-02-06 Thread Rob Kampen
On 02/07/2012 01:04 PM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Hi all, > I have an issue where I need to find an easy way to change ssh > password in 3 different machines at the same time, at least in one go. > Is there such tool? Preferably Web based. Joking - right? 1. Why are you using password based authentic

Re: [CentOS] Perl Libraries

2012-02-10 Thread Rob Kampen
On 02/11/2012 09:04 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Matt wrote: > >> Having troubles with perl libraries. Does everyone use yum to install >> perl modules on CentOS 5.x? I have installed the rpmforge repository. >> I am having terrible luck with installing libraries

Re: [CentOS] Perl Libraries

2012-02-11 Thread Rob Kampen
On 02/12/2012 10:15 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > Rob Kampen wrote: >> I am trying to install some perl libs and find the ones from CentOS >> mirrors are correctly loading the x86_64 versions, but the rpmforge ones >> are only i386 or i686 ones - any reason why?

Re: [CentOS] Perl Libraries

2012-02-11 Thread Rob Kampen
On 02/12/2012 12:43 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > On 02/12/2012 10:15 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: >> Rob Kampen wrote: >>> I am trying to install some perl libs and find the ones from CentOS >>> mirrors are correctly loading the x86_64 versions, but the rpmforge ones >

Re: [CentOS] Perl Libraries

2012-02-11 Thread Rob Kampen
On 02/12/2012 01:05 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > On 02/12/2012 12:52 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: >> On 02/12/2012 12:43 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: >>> On 02/12/2012 10:15 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: >>>> Rob Kampen wrote: >>>>> I am trying to install

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED]Perl Libraries

2012-02-12 Thread Rob Kampen
On 02/12/2012 01:06 PM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > > Rob Kampen wrote: >> On 02/12/2012 12:43 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: >>> On 02/12/2012 10:15 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: >>>> Rob Kampen wrote: >>>>> I am trying to install some perl libs

Re: [CentOS] Anyone already tried to backport the latest ASPM kernel patch to 6.2?

2012-02-12 Thread Rob Kampen
On 02/13/2012 12:39 PM, Michael Lampe wrote: > Patrick Lists wrote: > >> Iirc to enable ASPM on Fedora the kernel must be booted with >> pcie_aspm=force. Maybe you need to use that option too? For more info >> see: >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_aspm_solution&num=1 > Th

Re: [CentOS] Please I'd like to install 2 websites on my un managed VPS on CentOS6

2012-02-23 Thread Rob Kampen
On 02/24/2012 12:25 PM, Wuxi Ixuw wrote: > Is it advised to install on a virtual machine like vmware or a real > computer? If you are going to use CentOS 6 - as a VM host it must be installed on a 64 bit architecture! > On 24/02/2012 01:22 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: >> On Thursday, February 23, 2012 05

[CentOS] Audio weirdness on CentOS 6.2 with flash?

2012-02-24 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi List, I have an ASUS G73S laptop with our favorite OS installed and all up-to-date. Sound has always "just worked" When I use the Preferences>Sound app I can setup the hardware, input, output and was overall very impressed. One can check each speaker and the laptop has a front left and right a

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] Audio weirdness on CentOS 6.2 with flash?

2012-02-25 Thread Rob Kampen
On 02/25/2012 04:54 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > Hi List, > I have an ASUS G73S laptop with our favorite OS installed and all > up-to-date. > Sound has always "just worked" > When I use the Preferences>Sound app I can setup the hardware, input, > output and was overall

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

2009-05-20 Thread Rob Kampen
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Equinox86 wrote: yes centos is not for desktop it's guaranteee, if you don't have much time and want a distro updated at last release, if you have much time to spend to recompile dependences i advice use slackware, is fast and desktop friendly, similar to swiss knife.

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

2009-05-25 Thread Rob Kampen
Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of William L. Maltby Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 2:24 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates? Probably not the best

Re: [CentOS] Can't play DVD movies on CentOS 5.3 after following guidance on the wiki

2009-06-03 Thread Rob Kampen
MHR wrote: On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: David McGuffey wrote: I killed totem and manually tried to start the DVD with mplayer. mplayer sat there...not recognizing that there was a DVD in the drive. you could install xine (it's in rpmforge), it wo

Re: [CentOS] yum best policy && magic.mime problem (httpd update)

2009-06-03 Thread Rob Kampen
Adrian Sevcenco wrote: Hi! I have 2 questions : 1. I heard about an best and all policy with yum for 64bit arch .. how can i change the policy to best as is annoying to have doubled packages when i need only the 64bit ones ... 2. i try to update the apache and i have this : --> Processing Depend

Re: [CentOS] stock openjdk vs. epel

2009-06-04 Thread Rob Kampen
Les Mikesell wrote: Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: If you have the epel repo installed and enabled during a yum update, you get java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.0.b12.el5.2 instead of the stock .b09 version. Is this intentional and desirable? I thought epel generally did not replace stock componen

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-06-29 Thread Rob Kampen
Dag Wieers wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: A quick look at http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=centos shows that a great majority of the packages are not even close to being "up-to-date", and that is a good thing for those us of who care more about stabili

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-07-03 Thread Rob Kampen
Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: no, trolling works much better on high volume lists like this one. I officially declare that whoever uses the word "troll" is underbrained (aka stupid moron). The verb "to troll" was invented by some ***arrogant*** F/LOSS developers to assert that any *conve

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-07-04 Thread Rob Kampen
Dag Wieers wrote: On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Bogdan Nicolescu wrote: BUT... when someone from the Centos team makes a statement like "...latest release has many up-to-date desktop packages..." or any other statement that might imply, suggest, hint, or even smell of breaking compatibility with RH, f

Re: [CentOS] [Fwd: Re: Getting started with NFS]

2009-07-04 Thread Rob Kampen
Niki Kovacs wrote: Subject: Re: [CentOS] Getting started with NFS From: Niki Kovacs Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:33:31 +0200 To: Frank Cox To: Frank Cox Frank Cox a écrit : There isn't much to setting up a simple NFS

Re: [CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%-- solved

2009-07-06 Thread Rob Kampen
fabian wrote: Dear Guys Thanks and apprecite your quick replies By the way i had stated solving the problem of almost 100% CPU utulization starting everyday at 4 am and ending at 10 am in a very crude way top was reporting 95% wa i started to check the crontab file and noticed that the cron.dai

[CentOS] server fails reboot - GRUB

2009-07-07 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi All, Just wondering if anyone else has experienced a reboot problem. I have a intel motherboard based server of late 2004 vintage with 2 by 160GB SATA drives running linux software raid 1 with boot partition and /. The server was running 2.6.18-128.1.10 and had uptime of approx 40 days. I did

Re: [CentOS] Is there an openssh security problem?

2009-07-10 Thread Rob Kampen
Coert Waagmeester wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 15:18 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: This appeared today on Macworld, an article saying this is probably a hoax: http://www.macworld.com/article/141628/2009/07/openssh_securityhoax.html?lsrc=rss_main Bill In my iptables setup I have the fol

[CentOS] nfs (v3?) fails to allow writes and permission changes

2009-07-13 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi All, I have an nfs mount from my CentOS 5.3 client to a CentOS5.3 server. This has been functioning correctly for some years. Beginning last week I had problems saving OpenOffice documents onto the nfs mounted volume. OpenOffice just times out with a file io error. So I tried just a simple s

Re: [CentOS] nfs (v3?) fails to allow writes and permission changes

2009-07-13 Thread Rob Kampen
nate wrote: Rob Kampen wrote: [rkam...@robsws p_494]$ sudo chmod +w 5887_cover.pdf Password: chmod: changing permissions of `5887_cover.pdf': Operation not permitted yet using gnome file browser I can change permissions on these nfs mounted files just fine - go figure. This did work i

Re: [CentOS] nfs (v3?) fails to allow writes and permission changes

2009-07-13 Thread Rob Kampen
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 16:32, Rob Kampen wrote: BTW chmod +w file.doc only changes permissions for owner and group - world is left untouched, not what I remembered, I guess some man reading coming my way. >From "man chmod": "If none

Re: [CentOS] nfs (v3?) fails to allow writes and permission changes

2009-07-13 Thread Rob Kampen
Craig White wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 16:32 -0400, Rob Kampen wrote: nate wrote: Rob Kampen wrote: [rkam...@robsws p_494]$ sudo chmod +w 5887_cover.pdf Password: chmod: changing permissions of `5887_cover.pdf': Operation not permitted yet using gnome file browser

Re: [CentOS] nfs (v3?) fails to allow writes and permission changes

2009-07-14 Thread Rob Kampen
Craig White wrote: On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 00:42 -0400, JohnS wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 16:32 -0400, Rob Kampen wrote: So now it seems what I have is an Openoffice problem. It writes odt files just fine via nfs but not doc files. Must be a micro$oft conspiracy. I'll take thi

Re: [CentOS] nfs (v3?) fails to allow writes and permission changes

2009-07-16 Thread Rob Kampen
Paul Bijnens wrote: On 2009-07-15 21:16, Craig White wrote: there is little reason to be running OOo 2.x any longer Except that OOo 3.x is not packaged by RHEL/CentOS/rpmforge/... and that downloading and installing from openoffice.org installs version 3.1.0 which positions all your ta

Re: [CentOS] Gallery2 under CentOS-5.3

2009-07-19 Thread Rob Kampen
Michael A. Peters wrote: Timothy Murphy wrote: I asked about 18 months ago if gallery2 was available in any of the CentOS repositories, and it seemed that at that time it was not. However, there was some talk of putting it in epel or epel-testing. But I looked just now, and did not find it th

Re: [CentOS] TwinView (on NVIDIA graphics card)?

2009-07-20 Thread Rob Kampen
Toralf Lund wrote: Hi, Is anyone here using TwinView with NVIDIA graphics drivers under CentOS 5? Just tried this configuration (I've been using dual monitors as separate X screens in the past), and while it works in a sense, there are a few issue that will probably prevent me from using it

Re: [CentOS] RAID problem when building new computer

2009-07-22 Thread Rob Kampen
fred smith wrote: Hi all! I'm building up a new box and plan to use Centos 5 on it. i've got a pair of SATA 320 GB drives to make a RAID1. I'm trying to follow the "howto" on the centos wiki for making a "partitionable RAID" installation. Given that my partition scheme has a separate /boot pa

[CentOS] perl woes - perl-file-Temp conflict

2009-07-27 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi all, everytime I play with perl I end up falling on my face. Yesterday, some new perl modules available from rf (my chosen repo for perl, perl is excluded from my CentOS-Base), however it did not like an already installed perl-File-Temp, so not recalling it was necessary for my mail system I

Re: [CentOS] perl woes - perl-file-Temp conflict

2009-07-27 Thread Rob Kampen
Rob Kampen wrote: Hi all, everytime I play with perl I end up falling on my face. Yesterday, some new perl modules available from rf (my chosen repo for perl, perl is excluded from my CentOS-Base), however it did not like an already installed perl-File-Temp, so not recalling it was

Re: [CentOS] fixed perl woes - perl-file-Temp conflict

2009-07-27 Thread Rob Kampen
Rob Kampen wrote: Rob Kampen wrote: Hi all, everytime I play with perl I end up falling on my face. Yesterday, some new perl modules available from rf (my chosen repo for perl, perl is excluded from my CentOS-Base), however it did not like an already installed perl-File-Temp, so not

[CentOS] perl woes - perl-file-Temp conflict

2009-07-27 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi all, everytime I play with perl I end up falling on my face. Yesterday, new perl modules available from rf (my chosen repo for perl, perl is excluded from my CentOS-Base), however it did not like an already installed perl-File-Temp, so not recalling it was necessary for my mail system I remo

Re: [CentOS] perl woes - perl-file-Temp conflict

2009-07-28 Thread Rob Kampen
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Are you running MailScanner? Kai Not any more, it used to live on this machine. I fixed my problem by removing an aberrant perl-MIME-tools and loading the rf one. All is now functioning. Thankz Rob begin:vcard fn:Rob Kampen n:Kampen;Rob email;internet:r...@kampensonl

Re: [CentOS] BIND vulnerability

2009-07-30 Thread Rob Kampen
Bob Hoffman wrote: Been watching the bind thing for a few days and waiting for my daily yum to update. Finally did it by hand and got an interesting message. The python dependency killed my yum...lol. A quick look online and I see a few thousand fedora and redhat issues with this python thing.

[CentOS] LDAP howto using ds-base and ds-admin and related consoles

2009-07-30 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi, I have previously used openLDAP and read many of their howto documents for establishing an LDAP server. RH and CentOS provide -ds-base and related rpms and I like what I see and read about the product. I found the wiki article on installing the rpms and getting it running on a server - so f

Re: [CentOS] Serious bug in OpenOffice.org Calc shipped with CentOS

2009-08-06 Thread Rob Kampen
Nicki OO is one of the few packages I get directly from the sun/OO site. I install it in /opt and it works fine. You may want to remove the existing via yum first. Rob Kampen 407-341-3815 On Aug 6, 2009, at 4:21 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > Until now I've been a happy

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge.repo

2009-08-06 Thread Rob Kampen
Sam Drinkard wrote: How come rpmforge.repo wants to install a whole slew of perl modules, yet if I leave rpmforge.repo out of the update process, none of the perl modules shows up? Here's the rpmforge.repo file.. do any of yall see anything wrong with anything in there? Sam # Name: RPMforge

Re: [CentOS] Bugzilla not working following RHEL to CentOS migration

2009-08-11 Thread Rob Kampen
Sorry for top post blame my iPhone It looks like there is a mySql table missing between the old and new versions of bugzilla. Look for a script in the newer version that performs the table updates HTH Rob Kampen 407-341-3815 On Aug 11, 2009, at 5:23 AM, Chris Ross wrote: > Dear listma

Re: [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-13 Thread Rob Kampen
James B. Byrne wrote: REPLY-TO: <183c528b0908121238k33c407ah18e4762c48652...@mail.gmail.com> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:38:00 -0400 Brian Mathis It also helps to understand how people read instructions. When they look at a page, they see {big blob of useless introduction text}, then they see

[CentOS] problem with udev when booting kernel 5.3 release 128.4.1

2009-08-19 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi List, I am running a 64 bit 5.3 kernel on an intel mb and all has been well. Today I thought it would be okay to reboot so that the latest kernel was running - i.e move from 128.2.1 to 128.4.1 release. The system passes POST fine, grub passes control to the 128.4.1 kernel and the boot process

Re: [CentOS] problem with udev when booting kernel 5.3 release 128.4.1

2009-08-20 Thread Rob Kampen
Rob Kampen wrote: Hi List, I am running a 64 bit 5.3 kernel on an intel mb and all has been well. Today I thought it would be okay to reboot so that the latest kernel was running - i.e move from 128.2.1 to 128.4.1 release. The system passes POST fine, grub passes control to the 128.4.1 kernel

Re: [CentOS] problem with udev when booting kernel 5.3 release 128.4.1

2009-08-21 Thread Rob Kampen
Tru Huynh wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:41:55PM -0400, Rob Kampen wrote: Rob Kampen wrote: Hi List, I am running a 64 bit 5.3 kernel on an intel mb and all has been well. Today I thought it would be okay to reboot so that the latest kernel was running - i.e move from 128.2.1 to

Re: [CentOS] problem with udev when booting kernel 5.3 release 128.4.1

2009-08-21 Thread Rob Kampen
Michael Klinosky wrote: Rob Kampen wrote: I am running a 64 bit 5.3 kernel on an intel mb and all has been well. Today I thought it would be okay to reboot so that the latest kernel was running - i.e move from 128.2.1 to 128.4.1 release. The system passes POST fine, grub passes control to

Re: [CentOS] rsync

2009-09-03 Thread Rob Kampen
chloe K wrote: Hi I put the rsync in cronjob but it won't work in root user cron */30 * * * * /home/chloe/rsy.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 1/ why it needs pw when I run this rsy.sh in root? but if I run it in chloe user, it doesn't need pw as I put authoized_key in remote host chloe 2/ why th

Re: [CentOS] problem with udev when booting kernel 5.3 release 128.4.1 - solved - kinda

2009-09-04 Thread Rob Kampen
Rob Kampen wrote: Michael Klinosky wrote: Rob Kampen wrote: I am running a 64 bit 5.3 kernel on an intel mb and all has been well. Today I thought it would be okay to reboot so that the latest kernel was running - i.e move from 128.2.1 to 128.4.1 release. The system passes POST fine, grub

[CentOS] SQL Server 2005 and CentOS?

2009-09-08 Thread Rob Kampen
One of my clients use a software product that is "upgrading" and will shortly utilize micro$oft SQL server 2005. Currently the clients are XP on older machines with the database residing on a Samba / CentOS server and this works very well. Question: Does anyone run SQL server from XP in a virtua

Re: [CentOS] SQL Server 2005 and CentOS?

2009-09-08 Thread Rob Kampen
Ross Walker wrote: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 10:22:56AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: Rob Kampen wrote: One of my clients use a software product that is "upgrading" and will shortly utilize micro$oft SQL server 2005.

Re: [CentOS] problem with a repo

2009-09-12 Thread Rob Kampen
Dave wrote: Hello, I've got rpmforge and epel on centos 5.3. I'm trying to do an install of perl-Image-Info for spamassassin image scanning. The package was picked up in rpmforge since first, but it is failing to install because a dependency is missing. I added perl-Image-Info to rpmforge

Re: [CentOS] No login with kernel 2.6.18-164.el5

2009-09-17 Thread Rob Kampen
Olaf Mueller wrote: Olaf Mueller wrote: Olaf Mueller wrote: since kernel 2.6.18-164.el5 no user could login any more from nfs client into his home directory Now reported on CentOS Bug Tracker #0003840. Here are some more information and a workaround. This is a know major

Re: [CentOS] Mirror After?

2009-09-29 Thread Rob Kampen
ML wrote: Hi All, If I put a 1TB HD in my server (because they are on sale this week), can I later Mirror to a second 1TB drive without destroying the data on the first? On Windows and OS X, I know I can't do this... Thoughts? -ML ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Rob Kampen
Alan McKay wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote: I like stability over "cutting edge," so CentOS (with multimedia from RPMForge) What are the details on MM from RPMForge? If I could get my MM working I'd be happy. I like stability too, which is why I use it o

Re: [CentOS] SDA and HDA

2010-08-22 Thread Rob Kampen
Matt wrote: The only problems with switching after install is: 1) you need to be sure the initrd has the (proper) SATA kernel module(s) in it. If necessary, you'll have to use mkinitrd to re-create the initrd file to include the proper driver modules. 2) /etc/fstab needs to be fixed, either to

Re: [CentOS] Dovecot attack

2010-08-23 Thread Rob Kampen
Dag Wieers wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: It seems there was some kind of attack against dovecot on my server (CentOS-5.5) with a hundred or so logwatch entries like: = **Unmatched Entries** dovecot-auth: pam_succeed_if(do

[CentOS] PAM_shield locking me out?

2010-08-24 Thread Rob Kampen
Yesterday I installed pam_shield and followed the testing suggested and thought all was well. today I find that I cannot get to my email account, I can login via ssh okay (uses keys) but su and sudo give segmentation faults. I am guessing due to the pam module causing a problem. As I cannot do r

Re: [CentOS] PAM_shield locking me out?

2010-08-24 Thread Rob Kampen
Giles Coochey wrote: On Tue, August 24, 2010 17:29, Rob Kampen wrote: Yesterday I installed pam_shield and followed the testing suggested and thought all was well. today I find that I cannot get to my email account, I can login via ssh okay (uses keys) but su and sudo give

Re: [CentOS] PAM_shield locking me out?

2010-08-24 Thread Rob Kampen
A. Kirillov wrote: Yesterday I installed pam_shield and followed the testing suggested and thought all was well. today I find that I cannot get to my email account, I can login via ssh okay (uses keys) but su and sudo give segmentation faults. I am guessing due to the pam module causi

[CentOS] miro from rpmforge appears to have dep solving issues

2010-08-26 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi folks, Anyone know the whereabouts of libgtkembedmoz.so()(64bit) as it is needed by miro-1.0-1.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) I tried a whatprovides and have looked at epel as well as rpmforge - no luck. While I'm asking, I'm looking for an internet HD TV viewer - miro looked interesting - any oth

Re: [CentOS] miro from rpmforge appears to have dep solving issues

2010-08-26 Thread Rob Kampen
Mark Pryor wrote: Hello, 2nd try. It's in thunderbird-2.0.0.24-6.el5.centos.i386 (rpmforge) see below --- On Thu, 8/26/10, Rob Kampen wrote: From: Rob Kampen Subject: [CentOS] miro from rpmforge appears to have dep solving issues To: "CentOS mailing list" Date: Thur

Re: [CentOS] PAM_shield locking me out?

2010-08-26 Thread Rob Kampen
Dag Wieers wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Rob Kampen wrote: Yesterday I installed pam_shield and followed the testing suggested and thought all was well. today I find that I cannot get to my email account, I can login via ssh okay (uses keys) but su and sudo give segmentation faults. I am

Re: [CentOS] System beeps in kernel 2.6.18-194

2010-08-31 Thread Rob Kampen
On Aug 31, 2010, at 9:40 AM, Glenn Eychaner wrote: > On Aug 31, 2010, at 9:36 AM, Glenn Eychaner wrote: > >> On Aug 26, 2010, at 12:00 PM, centos-requ...@centos.org wrote: >> ?Is there someplace can I find *detailed* release notes on the differences between -164 and -194 kernels to

Re: [CentOS] statd random port - sysconfig/nfs not taking effect

2010-09-01 Thread Rob Kampen
Carlos S wrote: I have changed /etc/sysconfig/nfs to specify port numbers for NFS daemons. Somehow statd is still starting up at random port number. Other damons are starting at properly at specified port numbers Any clues on what might be wrong? Any other location/setting that takes precedence o

Re: [CentOS] how long to reboot server ?

2010-09-02 Thread Rob Kampen
Tim Nelson wrote: - "mcclnx mcc" wrote: we have CENTOS 5 on DELL servers. some servers have longer than one year did not reboot. Our consultant suggest we need at least reboot once every year to clean out memory junk. What is your opinion? If you're running a Wi

Re: [CentOS] set lockedmem to higher value?

2010-09-09 Thread Rob Kampen
mcclnx mcc wrote: We have some ORACLE PGA problem and ORACLE document say we can serup lockmem(Max lock memory) to higher value. $ulimit -a time(cpu-seconds) unlimited file(blocks) unlimited coredump(blocks) 0 data(kbytes) unlimited stack(kbytes) 10240 lockedmem(kbytes) 3145728 memory(k

[CentOS] aac and tag editing

2010-10-14 Thread Rob Kampen
As my iphone will not play nice with open source audio formats I'm forced to use aac. I have faac and produce .aac files that seems to play fine with Amarok but no tags. I usually use Easytag (from rpmforge) to deal with metadata on audio files, but despite the advertised ability to do mp4/aac i

Re: [CentOS] more software raid questions

2010-10-19 Thread Rob Kampen
fred smith wrote: hi all! back in Aug several of you assisted me in solving a problem where one of my drives had dropped out of (or been kicked out of) the raid1 array. something vaguely similar appears to have happened just a few mins ago, upon rebooting after a small update. I received four e

Re: [CentOS] more software raid questions

2010-10-20 Thread Rob Kampen
fred smith wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 07:34:19PM -0700, Nataraj wrote: fred smith wrote:helppain/backups/disks/ Well, I've already tried to use --fail and --remove on md125 and md126 but I'm told the members are still active. mdadm /dev/md126 --fail /dev/sdb1 --r

Re: [CentOS] more software raid questions

2010-10-20 Thread Rob Kampen
Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Nataraj wrote: When I create my Raid arrays, I always use the option --bitmap=internal. With this option set, a bitmap is used to keep track of which pages on the drive are out of date and then you only resync pages which need updating inst

Re: [CentOS] odd ClamAV error

2010-10-26 Thread Rob Kampen
On Oct 26, 2010, at 10:31 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Has anyone recently started seeing > LibClamAV Warning: Cannot prepare for JIT, because it has already been > converted to interpreter > ? I can't find anything googling for that. > Yeah noted a few times in the last week. Doesn't seem to i

Re: [CentOS] Pptp vpn server

2010-11-04 Thread Rob Kampen
Ross Walker wrote: On Nov 3, 2010, at 9:24 PM, Ben McGinnes wrote: On 4/11/10 10:35 AM, Ross Walker wrote: On Nov 3, 2010, at 7:01 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 11/03/10 3:46 PM, Ross Walker wrote: I just think VPN

Re: [CentOS] Pptp vpn server

2010-11-05 Thread Rob Kampen
Ben McGinnes wrote: On 6/11/10 12:25 AM, Ross Walker wrote: If we could start the whole certificate thing over I think it would have been better to have a trust "registrar" rather then a bunch of semi-trusted authorities. Then any corporation can create their own CA and register that CA with

[CentOS] flash-plugin crashes on full screen

2010-11-07 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi List. doing my weekly updates with yum last night installed kernel.x86_64 2.6.18-194.17.4.el5.centos.plus and flash-plugin.i386 10.1.102.64-release now today as I go to watch a movie from hulu.com it crashes the flash-plugin whenever I try to go full screen. Anyone else notice this behavi

Re: [CentOS] flash-plugin crashes on full screen

2010-11-08 Thread Rob Kampen
Greg Bailey wrote: Rob Kampen wrote: Hi List. doing my weekly updates with yum last night installed kernel.x86_64 2.6.18-194.17.4.el5.centos.plus and flash-plugin.i386 10.1.102.64-release now today as I go to watch a movie from hulu.com it crashes the flash-plugin whenever I try to go

Re: [CentOS] flash-plugin crashes on full screen

2010-11-08 Thread Rob Kampen
On Nov 8, 2010, at 8:35 AM, Przemysław Pawełczyk wrote: > On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 08:08:42 -0500 > Rob Kampen wrote: > >>>> kernel.x86_64 2.6.18-194.17.4.el5.centos.plus > (...) >>> I noticed in the announcement at: >>> https://www.redhat.com/archives

Re: [CentOS] flash-plugin crashes on full screen

2010-11-08 Thread Rob Kampen
On Nov 8, 2010, at 9:06 AM, Przemysław Pawełczyk wrote: > On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 08:55:30 -0500 > Rob Kampen wrote: > >> >> >> On Nov 8, 2010, at 8:35 AM, Przemysław Pawełczyk wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 08:08:42 -0500 >>> Rob Kampe

Re: [CentOS] flash-plugin crashes on full screen

2010-11-10 Thread Rob Kampen
brett mm wrote: now today as I go to watch a movie from hulu.com it crashes the flash-plugin whenever I try to go full screen. On Fedora 13, some versions of Flash crashed when fullscreen button was clicked, if the user also had nvidia drivers installed. The wor

Re: [CentOS] Flash problems in newest upgrade?

2010-11-11 Thread Rob Kampen
Ron Blizzard wrote: Hi, I just upgraded to the newest kernel and Flash. Hulu now "grays out" when I try to go to full screen. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the proprietary video drivers (no difference either way), so I'm guessing it has something to do with either the new Flash or the new

Re: [CentOS] hwclock problem

2010-11-11 Thread Rob Kampen
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: Hi. I run peridocally (from cron) on all of my machines 30 * * * * root /sbin/hwclock --systohc All of those machines in question take their time via NTP from the same local server, and that server gets its time from a ntp pool. Now I had to reboot a couple of them

Re: [CentOS] External HD on CentOS 5.5

2010-11-13 Thread Rob Kampen
Dick Roth wrote: I'm looking into backing up my CentOS 5.5 system using an external USB 2.0 hard drive. Anyone with experience with Toshiba Canvio USB 750 GB unit? I'm backing up to DVDs now and would like to streamline the process. Any advice is welcome with thanks. Dick I use Toshiba

[CentOS] Postfix - message queue filling with Host or name not found - try again

2010-11-16 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi list, I have noted over the last week or so my DNS servers are dumping lots of messages for bogus domain lookups. Examining the postfix queue with postqueue -p: I see many (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=bdgiedjhea.po6e4ina.com type=MX: Host not found, try again)

Re: [CentOS] Postfix - message queue filling with Host or name not found - try again

2010-11-16 Thread Rob Kampen
Alan Hodgson wrote: On November 16, 2010 11:49:42 am Rob Kampen wrote: Hi list, I have noted over the last week or so my DNS servers are dumping lots of messages for bogus domain lookups. Examining the postfix queue with postqueue -p: I see many (Host or domain name not found

Re: [CentOS] Boot failure after install on IBM x3550 M3

2010-11-17 Thread Rob Kampen
Toralf Lund wrote: I'm trying to install CentOS 5.5 on a couple of servers of type IBM System x3550 M3, but it's not going too well. Actually, the install setup phase runs as expected, and the actual installation also appears to be successful, but the system will not boot [ ... ]

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