Re: [CentOS] Where are my VIM colors?

2007-12-07 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:49pm on Friday, December 07, 2007 (UK time), [EMAIL PROTECTED] scrawled: > Maybe, it's stupid question but I've just installed CentOS5 and when I'm > going to edit some of my conf files I see no colors as it did in old > CentOS4x... Did you setup/restore a .vimrc file, including one fo

Re: [CentOS] ssh terminal froze once in a while

2007-12-12 Thread Steve Searle
Around 01:45pm on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 (UK time), Centos scrawled: > Hello > > My ssh terminal froze some times, and I was thinking it might be related > to centos , > but now I found that even ubuntu users experiencing the same problem. > > does ssh logs any where, and what do you sugg

[CentOS] Yum update fails on perl-gettext

2008-01-25 Thread Steve Searle
Foe a while now, yum update has been failing on the perl-gettext package with: Transaction Check Error: file /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/Locale/gettext/gettext.so from install of perl-gettext-1.05-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package perl-Locale-gettext-

Re: [CentOS] cpu type

2008-02-03 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:06pm on Sunday, February 03, 2008 (UK time), Jimmy Bradley scrawled: > and open it up to find out. Is there a command entered by way of the > terminal window that will tell me what kind of cpu I have? I want to say > that it's an AMD sempron 3000+, but I'm not sure. cat /proc/cpuinfo

Re: [CentOS] cpu type

2008-02-03 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:21pm on Sunday, February 03, 2008 (UK time), Jimmy Bradley scrawled: > On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 12:12 +0000, Steve Searle wrote: > > Around 12:06pm on Sunday, February 03, 2008 (UK time), Jimmy Bradley > > scrawled: > > > > > and open it up to find out. Is

Re: [CentOS] Find files

2008-02-22 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:42am on Saturday, February 23, 2008 (UK time), Matt Shields scrawled: > You can also do it like this > > /usr/bin/find /mnt/iog -type f -name '*.tar.gz' -mtime +7 -print -exec > rm -f {} \; man tmpwatch Steve -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.

Re: [CentOS] NIS problems after installation

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:08am on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 (UK time), Steve Strong scrawled: > any help with this really gnarly bug would be greatly appreciated! You're not blocked by iptables, are you? Steve -- Play Champions - my free football predictions game at: http://www.stevesearle.com/champs/

Re: [CentOS] dns propagation problem

2007-08-14 Thread Steve Searle
Around 05:54pm on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 (UK time), Mark Quitoriano scrawled: > where do i put the notify yes? on named.conf? or on the .zone file? do you > have sample config for that? thanks! I have some instructions with sample config files here: http://www.stevesearle.com/tech/centos5.0.svr

Re: [CentOS] Help with backups

2007-08-17 Thread Steve Searle
Around 01:56am on Saturday, August 18, 2007 (UK time), Scott Ehrlich scrawled: > Trying tar cvf /mnt/samba_share/backup.tar /* eventually yields backing up > /mnt, which produces an unwanted loop, including /mnt/samba_share > > I looked at tar with --exclude /mnt but didn't seem to get the resul

Re: [CentOS] 'service' command not present

2007-08-22 Thread Steve Searle
Around 09:56pm on Monday, August 20, 2007 (UK time), [EMAIL PROTECTED] scrawled: > I just did an install of CentOS 5 on one of my machines. However, when > I try to use the 'service' command (such as 'service httpd start') I get > an error that the service command is not found. > > Why would tha

Re: [CentOS] NFS and iptables issues

2007-09-13 Thread Steve Searle
Around 09:22pm on Thursday, September 13, 2007 (UK time), Chuck Campbell scrawled: > I've got a newly installed Centos 5.0 box, planned to replace an ageing server > (solaris box). I've set up the nfs shares, but the other solaris boxes > won't mount them, unless I turn of iptables on the Centos

Re: [CentOS] A quick question about ./configure

2007-09-27 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:09pm on Thursday, September 27, 2007 (UK time), Rodrigo Barbosa scrawled: > Another possibility is the file being saved in DOS format (CRLF at the > end). And when it happens to me, its usually because I'm not in the directory I think I am :-) -- A: Because it messes up the order i

Re: [CentOS] forcing Y on yum upgrades

2007-10-09 Thread Steve Searle
Around 03:27pm on Tuesday, October 09, 2007 (UK time), Rogelio Bastardo scrawled: > I'd like to be able to do a "yum upgrade" without having to hit Y each time. > While "yum install -y [program]}" seems to work, "yum -y upgrade" doesn't > seem to. Is there a way to easily do this? "yum -y updat

Re: [CentOS] dovecot fails to start at boot, but starts manually

2007-10-24 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:02pm on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 (UK time), Kenneth Porter scrawled: > I reboot the server and dovecot fails to start. But I can then issue > "service dovecot start" and it starts up just fine. How to debug? I don't > see anything in /var/log/messages nor /var/log/maillog. I know

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mail Server Install

2007-11-29 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:48pm on Thursday, November 29, 2007 (UK time), Tronn Wærdahl scrawled: > British and English is the same ain't it .. No, England is one of the countries in Britain. English, Scots and Welsh are all British. Steve -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people nor

Re: [CentOS] is CentOS stable enough ?

2007-06-12 Thread Steve Searle
Around 09:21am on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 (UK time), Feizhou scrawled: > Well, desktop related problems aside, Fedora can be very useful in a > server environment. Weird that others find Fedora great on the desktop > but would never touch it with a ten foot pole for a server :P. Although I find

Re: [CentOS] centos 5 iptables

2007-06-12 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:59pm on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 (UK time), CentOS List scrawled: > Hi, > > I applied a set of iptables rules and started iptables without any trouble. > But after i edited the rules and restarting it, it gives me "Applying > iptables firewall rules: iptables-restore: line 35 failed". I

Re: [CentOS] centos 5 iptables

2007-06-12 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:22am on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 (UK time), CentOS List scrawled: > Line 35 > COMMIT What are the few lines before that? Steve -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing? 00:39:16 up 26 min, 0 users, load average:

Re: [CentOS] Gnome Taskbar(s)

2007-06-19 Thread Steve Searle
Around 02:13am on Tuesday, June 19, 2007 (UK time), fredex scrawled: > All the newer Gnome distributions seem to configure themselves with > two small "taskbars" (panels, I guess) one at the top and one at the > bottom. > > I prefer the older scheme with one larger one (usually) at the bottom. >

Re: [CentOS] How To Free memory

2007-06-20 Thread Steve Searle
Around 04:12pm on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 (UK time), Fung scrawled: > When the system is fresh reboot, there is below 1GB of used memory and as > times go , the used memory increased to over 3.5GB. > > Is there a way to free memory out like those program which works under > Windows? Basically y

Re: [CentOS] Program that opens documents with their associated program

2007-06-20 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:00pm on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 (UK time), [EMAIL PROTECTED] scrawled: > > This may be a TOTALLY trivial question (and maybe inappropriate for > this list), but I don't know where else to ask it: > > On my Mac I've got this wonderful command line utility that opens > documents with t

Re: [CentOS] How to add to EPEL wishlist?

2007-06-29 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:27am on Friday, June 29, 2007 (UK time), Radu-Cristian FOTESCU scrawled: > _why_ the post was made on this list! When I first used a mailing list > 12 years ago, discussions were absolutely frank, open, polite and > low-stress, but now on almost all lists there are wars, flame wars, > n

Re: [CentOS] Linux for zVM

2007-07-02 Thread Steve Searle
Around 07:42pm on Monday, July 02, 2007 (UK time), Shahin.Suleiman scrawled: > I hope I am not on the wrong list. I think you are. > I am looking to install Linux under zVM 5.1 and I can barely spell > LinUX. > > How should I go about it and what Linux distributions can be used under > zVM? ht

Re: [CentOS] dumb sendmail question -- how to get outbound messages to use "example.com" instead of hostname?

2007-07-02 Thread Steve Searle
Around 09:59pm on Monday, July 02, 2007 (UK time), Jeff Potter scrawled: > Yup -- that's what I'm trying to get sendmail to use, but it's > insisting on using the internal hostname, inclusive of the machine > name. I.e., "betsy.example.com" is the actual hostname, at 10.x.x.x; > all the 10.x

Re: [CentOS] bind issue on centos 5

2007-07-05 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:55am on Thursday, July 05, 2007 (UK time), Indunil Jayasooriya scrawled: > > > >>IN NS gateway.example77.com . > > ^ > > > >Ralph > > > >PS: named-checkzone is a great utility to check your zone files

[CentOS] Logwatch reporting spamassassin messages as unmatched entries

2011-02-28 Thread Steve Searle
I've recently switched to using spamassassin via a sendmail milter, rather than using procmail to invoke it. This means that I get a number of messages appearing in my maillog, and then being reported by logwatch as unmatched entries. An example of such a messages is: Feb 27 04:33:09 quail sendm