Re: [CentOS] Redhat vs centos vs ubuntu

2011-11-12 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 11/12/2011 07:46 AM, Errol Mangwiro piše: Hi, Sorry about the top-posting, I'm replying from my blackberry. I've been following this thread for a while and really don't see why people respond so rabidly to criticism. If something bothers/bores me about a thread I just Ignore the

Re: [CentOS] Postfix mail server procedure

2011-11-12 Thread Christopher Chan
On Saturday, November 12, 2011 01:01 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 13:23 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: You don't mention a mail store [IMAP Server]? Such as Cyrus IMAP. Something for Postfix to deliver the mail too. Mail store != imap server. Mail store = structure for

Re: [CentOS] Postfix mail server procedure

2011-11-12 Thread Christopher Chan
On Saturday, November 12, 2011 01:04 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: +1 The shipped packages on most distributions are a bit lame; Simon's packages are the way to go. They also provision everything as Skiplist [Cyrus' preferred DB format] avoiding the ugliness that is Berkley DB [issue with

Re: [CentOS] Postfix mail server procedure

2011-11-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.11.2011 14:53, schrieb Christopher Chan: Oh, so Cyrus is another 'use a database as a mail store'? The other one that I know of but cannot remember the name of uses postgresql for its mailstore. the only REAl db-driven mailservr is dbmail and in combination with

Re: [CentOS] Redhat vs centos vs ubuntu

2011-11-12 Thread Christopher Chan
On Saturday, November 12, 2011 03:59 PM, Nataraj wrote: I believe the standard desktop uses Ubuntu's own installer. The Ubuntu server and the 'alternative' distribution use the debian installer. I fought with it at first, but it is much more flexible than the redhat installer. You can

[CentOS] Trouble with Mailman

2011-11-12 Thread John J. Boyer
I have set up Mailman on a virtual private server from 1and1 running Centos, though I can't tell which version. The system has 2 GB of memory. Mailman is receiving posts, but it is not sending them out to everybody. It is also getting some out-of-memory errors. The server is also runing Plesk

Re: [CentOS] Redhat vs centos vs ubuntu

2011-11-12 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 11/12/2011 08:08 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: On Saturday, November 12, 2011 03:59 PM, Nataraj wrote: Not to necessarily feed this thread ... but the last 2 posts have been sane and relevant (as much as this topic can be). I used to use Debian as my distribution of choice before RHEL came out

Re: [CentOS] Trouble with Mailman

2011-11-12 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 11/12/2011 09:07 AM, John J. Boyer wrote: I have set up Mailman on a virtual private server from 1and1 running Centos, though I can't tell which version. The system has 2 GB of memory. Mailman is receiving posts, but it is not sending them out to everybody. It is also getting some

Re: [CentOS] Postfix mail server procedure

2011-11-12 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-11-12 at 21:53 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: On Saturday, November 12, 2011 01:01 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: People with bad hardware can break anything; and you're probably talking about old versions anyway [anything with indexes/databases can corrupt]. You should be

Re: [CentOS] Redhat vs centos vs ubuntu

2011-11-12 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-11-12 at 09:25 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: However, if you are Fedora, RHEL, CentOS only with respect to what you have managed in the past, then there is a learning curve to get proficient at doing Debian/Ubuntu. the discussion of which distribution is better is a fool's game

Re: [CentOS] Redhat vs centos vs ubuntu

2011-11-12 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 11/12/2011 03:08 PM, Christopher Chan piše: Using your own scripts is the only sane way to do things...ufw, fwbuilder, even shorewall are just either inadequate, inflexible or way too complicated to trace/optimize things. I use shorewall for several years now. It is very flexible and

Re: [CentOS] Misterious hang

2011-11-12 Thread Nataraj
2. It's just hang. Not reboot. I have to power off the VM and power on. The ESXi host has many VM in it and only my that VM has problem. If you can't trace your problem to anything else, then I would look at the ESXI configuration for that VM. If there are other CentOS/Redhat 5 VM's on the

Re: [CentOS] Redhat vs centos vs ubuntu

2011-11-12 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Friday 11 November 2011 07:44, John Hodrien wrote: grub in EL6 can boot of ext4, and that's grub-0.97-68.el6.x86_64. Grub (version 1) from CentOS 6 has apparently been patched to be able to handle ext4. There's no doubt that Grub 1 by itself can't boot an ext4 file system. There's a