Re: [CentOS] Mementos

2021-09-01 Thread Dave Stevens via CentOS
On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 19:44:52 -0500 Chris Adams wrote: > I wonder if it would install in a modern VM? me too but not interested enough to do it. Thank you for taking on this important work! d ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Mementos

2021-08-31 Thread Dave Stevens via CentOS
On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 20:06:40 -0400 mark wrote: > I said RH 5.2 hmm. I have a 4.2, any rarity value to these? d ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for webmail client on EL8

2021-03-01 Thread Dave Stevens
On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 10:56:11 -0600 Valeri Galtsev wrote: > PS Not everything that paces fast with new "releases" and which > releases security patches even more often (yes, I look at you, > Mozilla firefox and thunderbird) is "pretty much dead". and claws for me or roundcube works fine. d

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread Dave Stevens
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 21:05:42 +0100 Rainer Duffner wrote: > It’s also not often the case that you can split this kind of work > into a thousand work-packages and have everybody just work 1/2 hour a > day on it. not like Debian for instance d ___

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Where to buy S/MIME ??

2018-11-27 Thread Dave Stevens
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 00:54:12 +0100 Rainer Duffner wrote: > It’s of course a free country haven't heard that for quite a while... d -- In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil. My books are not conceived in

Re: [CentOS] Which is better? Microsoft Exchange 2016 or Linux-based SMTP Servers?

2018-07-21 Thread Dave Stevens
On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 20:41:40 -0700 Keith Keller wrote: > On 2018-07-22, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > > > And on top of all: MS Windows is the only systems I know of whose > > vendor tells you, it is not safe to run without 3rd party software > > (antivirus). > > AFAIK (my son runs Windows, to

Re: [CentOS] Which is better? Microsoft Exchange 2016 or Linux-based SMTP Servers?

2018-07-20 Thread Dave Stevens
On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 09:57:22 -0500 Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > As far as google anything goes, not everybody volunteers one's > information into paws of google (and quite likely one or more of 3 > letter agencies collecting information that way). I know (call it > educated guess) that about

Re: [CentOS] Replacement web server time - catalog CPAN and PEAR installs

2018-06-28 Thread Dave Stevens
On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 20:16:27 + "Philipoff, Andrew" wrote: > Try running "pear list -a > pear_list.txt" to get a list of install > PEAR modules. > > Andrew thanks Andrew, very handy! d -- In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called

Re: [CentOS] Server disposal

2018-06-22 Thread Dave Stevens
On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:49:12 -0700 Kenneth Porter wrote: > Can anyone recommend a mailing list or other resource for finding a > home for old server hardware? I've got a growing bone pile of retired > Dell and Supermicro rack servers. I've stripped the drives and memory > but hate to see the

Re: [CentOS] Passwords in plain text

2018-06-15 Thread Dave Stevens
On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 17:44:47 -0500 Johnny Hughes wrote: > WRT mailing the password in clear text .. how else would it mail it? > > Mailman does not store any kind of encryption keys for email, and > frankly, most people don't know how to use encrypted email. This list > probably has a (much)

Re: [CentOS] OT - lowest power, cheapest python interpreter

2017-06-09 Thread Dave Stevens
On Fri, 9 Jun 2017 15:44:47 -0400 Fred Smith wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 09:00:42PM +0200, Andrew Holway wrote: > > I am searching for the cheapeat *nix SOC device with ethernet and > > wifi that can run Python 2.7. Ethernet should be 100mbit and > > hopefully

Re: [CentOS] humor (was Re: OT: systemd Poll)

2017-04-12 Thread Dave Stevens
On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:59:41 -0500 (CDT) "Valeri Galtsev" wrote: > On Wed, April 12, 2017 2:39 pm, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Andrew Holway > > wrote: > >>> > >>> When Windows 2000 came out some called it

Re: [CentOS] question about directory size in linux..

2017-02-22 Thread Dave Stevens
On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 07:27:05 +1100 Anthony K wrote: > On 23/02/17 06:04, John R Pierce wrote: > > on many modern file systems, larger directories are stored as some > > sort of B-Tree or hash tree, so there's quite a lot of indexing > > data in there along with the actual

Re: [CentOS] Noise Cancellation of Server Noise

2016-12-24 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Digimer : On 24/12/16 04:43 PM, H wrote: Has anyone come across a device that could cancel out the noise from servers, ie. the fan noise? I have a server rack near my office and would like to see if i can decrease the noise level. It would seem to me that the

Re: [CentOS] Alternative to cPanel

2016-12-22 Thread Dave Stevens
On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 22:16:15 +0100 Dario Lesca wrote: > Il giorno gio, 15/12/2016 alle 15.17 +, FrancisM ha scritto: > > Im looking for alternative for cPanel and somehow > > ISPconfig is open source and work well. > > http://www.ispconfig.org/documentation/ > as is

Re: [CentOS] Alternative to cPanel

2016-12-15 Thread Dave Stevens
On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 18:23:31 +0100 Andrew Holway wrote: > I think most of the market is moving towards AWS Elastic Beanstalk, > OpenShift and Docker. It seems control panels are not really much of a > thing anymore. > > Cheers, > > Andrew the people at virtualmin.com

Re: [CentOS] script to make webpage snapshot

2016-08-11 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Valeri Galtsev : On Thu, August 11, 2016 5:02 pm, John R Pierce wrote: On 8/11/2016 1:46 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: Could someone recommend a script or utility one can run from command line on Linux or UNIX machine to make a snapshot of webpage? We have a

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 39

2015-07-21 Thread Dave Stevens
On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 20:40:25 -0400 TE Dukes tdu...@palmettoshopper.com wrote: Hello, Trying to access webmin but I get the error: ssl_error_weak_server_cert_key. I tried uninstalling Firefox and re-installing 38.x but still get the error. I tried installing Chrome but the dependencies

[CentOS] can't mount an LVM volume inCentos 5.10

2015-04-01 Thread Dave Stevens
I have a degraded raid array (originally raid-10, now only two drives) that contains an LVM volume. I can see in the appended text that the Xen domains are there but I don't see how to mount them. No doubt this is just ignorance on my part but I wonder if anyone would care to direct me? I

[CentOS] sw raid issue with C5.10-xen

2015-02-18 Thread Dave Stevens
My raid array won't boot, gives a kernel panic - attempt to kill init message and goes into endless reboots. MB is a supermicro 2P with opteron 2376 4-core cpus, centos sw raid, installed C5.3, updated as possible, currently c5.10. 5 seagate 750GB drives as raid-10 and hot spare. we set

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2015-01-09 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Always Learning cen...@u62.u22.net: On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 09:35 -0700, Warren Young wrote: Once a thing becomes reliable, it stops being technology. Oh No. Just because something works well it does not stop being technology unless the USA people, who have decimated my language

Re: [CentOS] WARNING: No module xenblk found for kernel

2014-12-23 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Ulf Volmer u.vol...@u-v.de: On 12/18/2014 08:11 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: ran routine updates on the lernel this morning and got this: WARNING: No module xenblk found for kernel 2.6.18-400.1.1.el5, continuing anyway i'm not sure that i can help you, i have currently no centos5 vm

Re: [CentOS] WARNING: No module xenblk found for kernel

2014-12-23 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Ulf Volmer u.vol...@u-v.de: On 12/23/2014 11:11 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: Quoting Ulf Volmer u.vol...@u-v.de: On 12/18/2014 08:11 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: ran routine updates on the lernel this morning and got this: WARNING: No module xenblk found for kernel 2.6.18-400.1.1.el5

[CentOS] WARNING: No module xenblk found for kernel

2014-12-18 Thread Dave Stevens
ran routine updates on the lernel this morning and got this: WARNING: No module xenblk found for kernel 2.6.18-400.1.1.el5, continuing anyway The only references I can find are a year or so old. Anyone able to comment? or refer me? Have not rebooted. uname -a Linux bulkley.bvserver.ca

Re: [CentOS] centos7 raid

2014-11-25 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting dustin kempter dust...@consistentstate.com: hi all, is there any documentation out there about setting up a raid array in centos7? thanks I found the docs obscure, but this: http://binblog.info/2014/10/25/centos-7-on-md-raid-1/ may help. It is actually a simpler and better thought

Re: [CentOS] Need to Understand booting process of CENTOS-7

2014-10-03 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting keshab mahapatra ping2...@gmail.com: Thanks to all. At this address: https://www.edx.org/course/linuxfoundationx/linuxfoundationx-lfs101x-introduction-1621#.VC77Ya02l-g Is the start of edX's Intro to Linux course. I found the section on the Linux boot process clear and up to date.

[CentOS] C7 - implementation guide URL?

2014-09-24 Thread Dave Stevens
I went to the RH site and used wget to download an offline copy for some work I'm doing. When I went back I had a gig of text and no end in sight. This was due to multiple (a lot) languages. I tried downloading the English version only but it seems there are links somehow that lead every

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 RAID tutorial?

2014-09-11 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Digimer li...@alteeve.ca: On 10/09/14 06:45 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: Quoting Digimer li...@alteeve.ca: On 10/09/14 05:35 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: On 09/10/2014 02:33 AM, Digimer wrote: The problem with ZFS on linux is license related more than technical. It exists for ubutnu so

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 RAID tutorial?

2014-09-10 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Digimer li...@alteeve.ca: On 10/09/14 05:35 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: On 09/10/2014 02:33 AM, Digimer wrote: The problem with ZFS on linux is license related more than technical. It exists for ubutnu so I can use it from a ppa for testing. I would like to understand more about this

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 RAID tutorial?

2014-09-08 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Digimer li...@alteeve.ca: On 07/09/14 11:01 PM, Keith Keller wrote: On 2014-09-08, Valeri Galtsev galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote: Even more: system failure or power loss is more likely to destroy all data on software RAID than on a single drive when there is a lot of IO present (to

[CentOS] Centos 7 RAID tutorial?

2014-09-07 Thread Dave Stevens
I want to set up a new CentOS install using version 7 and would like to experiment with various RAID levels. Anyone care to point out a tutorial? TIA Dave -- We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to office -- Aesop ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Sorry

2014-05-17 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Alexander Dalloz ad+li...@uni-x.org: Am 17.05.2014 23:22, schrieb Always Learning: Top posting ALWAYS makes sense when the poster has included nearly 200 lines of redundant and time-wasting waffle from previous posters. False argument. +1

Re: [CentOS] Death of dyndns

2014-04-15 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net: I'm running two servers, one with a fixed IP address and the other with a dynamic address. This is probably a very ignorant question, but what does dyndns do that I could not do myself? In principle, nothing. But you aren't their use case. At

[CentOS] new Centos 6.5 32 bit yum issue

2014-02-18 Thread Dave Stevens
When I fire up the virtualbox VM Centos starts as I would expect, but when I try to use yum list updates (or any of several other yum command I've tried) I get a repo error - Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Could not retrieve mirrorlist

Re: [CentOS] new Centos 6.5 32 bit yum issue

2014-02-18 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Earl A Ramirez earlarami...@gmail.com: On 19 February 2014 03:01, Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com wrote: When I fire up the virtualbox VM Centos starts as I would expect, but when I try to use yum list updates (or any of several other yum command I've tried) I get a repo error

Re: [CentOS] I Know It's A Stupid Question......

2013-05-02 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. eoconno...@gmail.com: But I'm trying to give my son a cool-yet-kind-of-geeky 13th Birthday Present..he hinted he liked the CentOS logo, but where would I find things that are branded with it?searching the web doesn't really help me much, only

Re: [CentOS] Update on spam, postfix, fail2ban, centos 6

2012-06-15 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Bob Hoffman b...@bobhoffman.com: I have been using centos 6 in a virtualized system for a few months now. Took a while to batten down the hatches with postfix, rbls, and to use fail2ban correctly. Thanks for this,Bob. I'm having trouble making fail2ban work in my Centos 5.8 box.

[CentOS] anyone care to helop with a fail2ban problem on Centos 5.8?

2012-05-28 Thread Dave Stevens
I've got an up-to-date Centos 5.8 and can't seem to get fail2ban to get rid of troublesome sshd login attempts. /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf has these sections: [ssh] enabled = true port= ssh filter = sshd logpath = /var/log/auth.log maxretry = 6 # Generic filter for pam. Has to be used

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-23 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Johnny Hughes mailing-li...@hughesjr.com: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 09/23/2011 12:29 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 09/23/2011 06:57 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 09/23/2011 09:06 AM, Stefan Held wrote: Am

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.6 Implications of PGP53 ?

2011-09-03 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net: If one stays with Centos 5.x (currently on 5.6) is the problem/enhancement/incompatibility involving PHP53 likely to be resolved by general updates and/or the introduction of Centos 5.7 ? Paul. Me too. I have working Drupal installs that I want

[CentOS] OT?

2011-08-08 Thread Dave Stevens
I have a CentOS server with postfix running. A pop user's account was compromised and a lot of spam started being sent. My upstream ISP's mail program started refusing to talk to me because of the very high rate of mail, error 451. I disabled the compromised account. I then changed the

Re: [CentOS] Recommended mailing list manager for CentOS 5.6

2011-07-19 Thread Dave Stevens
On Tuesday, July 19, 2011 05:07:16 PM John J. Boyer wrote: Does CentOS 5.6 have a mailing list manager like ecartis or majordomo? I want to set up mailing lists for my server in the cloud for three domains that I own. What mailing list managers do yourecommend, and where can they be found? I

Re: [CentOS] Where can I download centos 6

2011-07-09 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org: Hi, On 07/09/2011 05:23 PM, Edson - PMSS wrote: I really like CentOS, but it is undeniable the delay in the release of version 6.0. yes, we all clearly take that on board - I hope the changes we are bringing in helps clear that, please say

Re: [CentOS] Where can I download centos 6

2011-07-08 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Steven Crothers steven.croth...@gmail.com: How is the site excellent if it changes nearly every other day, displays zero useful information on the development cycle, and discourages people to register and be a part of the community or development process (Now before anyone says its

Re: [CentOS] centos friends?

2011-05-06 Thread Dave Stevens
On Friday, May 06, 2011 03:41:04 PM Karanbir Singh wrote: On 05/06/2011 07:05 PM, fred smith wrote: On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 04:54:39PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 05/06/2011 04:49 PM, Kevin Thorpe wrote: http://centospubcrawl.eventbrite.com/ if you havent seen it already.

[CentOS] centos friends?

2011-05-05 Thread Dave Stevens
Hello All, I want to ask about CentOS and money. Please do not start some kind of shitstorm over this, it isn't productive. I have just been looking at archive.org to see when the paypal option went missing from the donate menu at centos.org. I can't pin it down, but it was there on October

Re: [CentOS] centos friends?

2011-05-05 Thread Dave Stevens
On Thursday, May 05, 2011 04:04:06 PM Karanbir Singh wrote: On 05/05/2011 10:51 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: Scott Silva wrote on 05/05/2011 05:03 PM: Here is a bit of why the donation button went away (It was back in 2009 or so)... Old news, that does not explain why monetary donations

Re: [CentOS] Setting up a GUI remote access

2011-04-26 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Monty Shinn mon...@videopost.com: On 04/26/2011 11:25 AM, Todd Cary wrote: Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop with Samba providing access to my Linux server. Since Linux is more reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to access my Linux (Centos 5.5) via my

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-05 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Michael Simpson mikie.simp...@gmail.com: see my remarks below On 4 April 2011 23:11, David Brian Chait dch...@invenda.com wrote: I have to provide a reliable and scalable infrastructure, and that requires a reliable provider / updates. While I do not need Centos 6 today, this

[CentOS] respawning apache on centos

2011-03-17 Thread Dave Stevens
Hi I have a centos instance on a host where uname -a shows: Linux cl28810.com 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.028stab079.2PAE #1 SMP Fri Dec 17 19:34:22 MSK 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Periodically my ssh access and http access slow dramatically and I get out of memory when trying to do rudimentary

Re: [CentOS] respawning apache on centos

2011-03-17 Thread Dave Stevens
On Thursday, March 17, 2011 01:09:46 pm Eero Volotinen wrote: 2011/3/17 Brunner, Brian T. bbrun...@gai-tronics.com: centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: One site hosted, running drupal 7, 1.5G RAM lots of disk spece, two cores, Xeon based host. I don't know if this is an apache issue or

Re: [CentOS] respawning apache on centos

2011-03-17 Thread Dave Stevens
On Thursday, March 17, 2011 01:09:48 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Dave Stevens wrote: Periodically my ssh access and http access slow dramatically and I get out of memory when trying to do rudimentary stuff like ls. I've been advised by snip is fine. It takes several minutes before

Re: [CentOS] respawning apache on centos

2011-03-17 Thread Dave Stevens
On Thursday, March 17, 2011 02:31:28 pm Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: Greetings, On 3/18/11, Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com wrote: Hi I have a centos instance on a host where uname -a shows: Linux cl28810.com 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.028stab079.2PAE #1 SMP Fri Dec 17 19:34:22 MSK 2010

[CentOS] email to web posting software?

2011-03-07 Thread Dave Stevens
Dear CentOS, I have a user group that would like to be able to routinely post (easily) emails to a web site. Must be usable without special training. I have no experience with this. Anyone have a suggestion? LAMP stack installed. Dave -- When a respected information source covers something

Re: [CentOS] email to web posting software?

2011-03-07 Thread Dave Stevens
On Monday, March 07, 2011 02:41:03 pm Dave Stevens wrote: Dear CentOS, I have a user group that would like to be able to routinely post (easily) emails to a web site. Must be usable without special training. I have no experience with this. Anyone have a suggestion? LAMP stack installed

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

2011-02-08 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Dr. Ed Morbius dredmorb...@gmail.com: on 16:34 Tue 08 Feb, Raymond Lillard (r...@sonic.net) wrote: On 02/08/2011 03:28 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: on 17:02 Tue 08 Feb, Les Mikesell (lesmikes...@gmail.com) wrote: On 2/8/2011 4:40 PM, Johnny H wrote: Thanks Mark, for this and your

Re: [CentOS] simple website hit counter

2010-11-27 Thread Dave Stevens
On Friday, November 26, 2010 02:00:04 pm Frank Cox wrote: Googling for this finds me a ton of stuff that doesn't actually do what I'm looking for. I want a simple hit counter cgi script of some kind that will increment a counter on every page load but I want to access the counter from a

[CentOS] experience with Sympa to Mailman?

2010-11-27 Thread Dave Stevens
I have a Centos 5.5 box with Mailman installed. A new user will host lists using Mailman, moving from a Sympa based host. Sympa isn't in the repos, does anyone know why? or have any experience moving the archive from Sympa to Mailman? Dave ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] upcoming mailman version change?

2010-11-23 Thread Dave Stevens
On Sunday, November 21, 2010 05:49:25 pm Morten P.D. Stevens wrote: 2010/11/22 Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com: Hi, I'm using CentOS on a box that, among other things, offers mailman mailing lists, currently mailman 2.1.9. Version 2.1.14 is avilable from the developers but integrating

[CentOS] upcoming mailman version change?

2010-11-21 Thread Dave Stevens
Hi, I'm using CentOS on a box that, among other things, offers mailman mailing lists, currently mailman 2.1.9. Version 2.1.14 is avilable from the developers but integrating it into the system promises to be tedious. I looked at RHEL 6 and don't know where to look to find the version

[CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-15 Thread Dave Stevens
I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? Dave -- It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Krishnamurti ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-15 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org: On 11/16/2010 12:36 AM, Dave Stevens wrote: I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? the Base CentOS-6 will have no Xen dom0 support, so you will almost

[CentOS] installing 32 bit vlc on Centos 5.5??

2010-10-10 Thread Dave Stevens
I'm in yum dependency hell using epel, rpmforge and rpmfusion repos to install vlc on 32 bit Centos 5.5. Anyone have a better idea? Doesn't really have to be vlc I just want to be able to play a dvd and Movie Player complains about missing plugins without saying what they are. Dave -- It

Re: [CentOS] installing 32 bit vlc on Centos 5.5??

2010-10-10 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Scott Robbins scot...@nyc.rr.com: On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 10:36:19PM -0700, Dave Stevens wrote: I'm in yum dependency hell using epel, rpmforge and rpmfusion repos to install vlc on 32 bit Centos 5.5. Anyone have a better idea? Doesn't really have to be vlc I just want to be able

[CentOS] yum downgrade working?

2010-06-13 Thread Dave Stevens
Hi, I recently accepted some updates that broke functionality due to a change in mapserver on my centos 5.5 box. I would like to try yum downgrade mapserver but when I do it goes through the motions and gives no output. What am I missing? Dave see: [r...@babine dave]# yum downgrade

Re: [CentOS] can't update CENTOS - mirrore issue? or what?

2010-05-24 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org: On 05/20/2010 09:57 PM, Ryan Manikowski wrote: Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5arch=i386repo=addons error was [Errno 4] IOError:urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution') Error: Cannot find a

[CentOS] can't update CENTOS - mirrore issue? or what?

2010-05-20 Thread Dave Stevens
For about a week a biug stack of updates have been pending for CENTOS but I can't install them. The yum update command leads to dependency resolution in the usual way but it always ends in this: --- Package poppler-utils.i386 0:0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11 set to be updated --- Package

Re: [CentOS] can't update CENTOS - mirrore issue? or what?

2010-05-20 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting m.r...@5-cent.us: Dave wrote: For about a week a biug stack of updates have been pending for CENTOS but I can't install them. The yum update command leads to dependency resolution in the usual way but it always ends in this: --- Package poppler-utils.i386 0:0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11 set

[CentOS] ethernet outages C5.4

2010-05-14 Thread Dave Stevens
Hello All, I don't have any reason to believe CENTOS (5.4) is underlying my difficulties but it's what I've got to work with so here's the setup: I have a 2P motherboard with 2 Opteron 2376s and two ethernet ports. The setup is fully virtualized, with Dom0, dom4 and Dom1 up and running.

Re: [CentOS] ethernet outages C5.4

2010-05-14 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting JohnS jse...@gmail.com: On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 12:39 -0700, Dave Stevens wrote: Hello All, I don't have any reason to believe CENTOS (5.4) is underlying my difficulties but it's what I've got to work with so here's the setup: I have a 2P motherboard with 2 Opteron 2376s and two

[CentOS] C5 XEN domain not startable

2010-03-31 Thread Dave Stevens
Hi, I have a Centos 5 box with dom0 and several domUs and one of them is not runnable. I ran updates several days ago and the update included a kernel update so I used virt-manager to reboot. But it won't book. It shows as not running and when I try to run it I get a dialog box with this:

Re: [CentOS] compilers a security risk?

2010-03-08 Thread Dave Stevens
On Sunday 07 March 2010 09:54:23 am Les Mikesell and MANY others wrote: While I typically do have the compilers and kernel headers installed on general purpose servers where I might want to run VMware server or rebuild a source rpm, I would not be very comfortable if I did not have a

[CentOS] compilers a security risk?

2010-03-06 Thread Dave Stevens
I manage a web hosting server that we've recently upgraded, in part so we could accommodate a domain that will enable community mapping. In a recent exchange of mails one developer said: I could build the package directly on the server machine you have, provided that the potential security

Re: [CentOS] XEN

2010-02-05 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Matt lm7...@gmail.com: I have a fairly high disk i/o intensive email server I am thinking of upgrading. I was thinking of upgrading it to CentOS 5.x 64bit. I was also thinking of running it as a guest under XEN. Would this allow me to more easilly transfer it to faster hardware in

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 and TYAN s4985 motherboard....

2010-01-04 Thread Dave Stevens
On Monday 04 January 2010 07:09:32 am Tom Bishop wrote: Was wondering if anyone has any luck with the Tyan s4985 motherboard, I had loaded up the latest 5.4 release and in installed most everything that I wanted but when I loaded it up, as in processor wise it would lock up. Funny thing I

Re: [CentOS] Some basic LVM questions

2009-11-08 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Monte Milanuk memila...@gmail.com: M. Hamzah Khan wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 10:44 -0800, Monte Milanuk wrote: What I think most people do (and what I am doing now), is to setup RAID-1 or so behind the volume group. This way you will still be safe if one of the drives fail. Keep

Re: [CentOS] firefox on 5.4

2009-10-23 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com: I just installed 5.3 about a week ago, fairly minimal install, x86_64 platform... then upgraded to 5.4 this AM, and just installed firefox $ sudo yum -y install firefox . Installed: firefox.i386 0:3.0.12-1.el5.centos

[CentOS] RAID advice? and KVM advice?

2009-10-19 Thread Dave Stevens
Hello All, In the not too distant future I will be commissioning a new CentOS (5.4?) box with 4 identical SATA drives. I'd like to set them up as RAID 1+0 for speed and redundancy. I've read the RHEL 5 deployment guide on raid setup and it seems to cover the basics of software raid pretty

Re: [CentOS] ftp issue in Centos 5.3

2009-09-30 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com: On 9/29/09, Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com wrote: I manage a small server that I back up weekly. I do this by making a tarball of relevant files then transferring it over the local subnet to my station (Fedora 11), whereupon I burn it to DVD

[CentOS] ftp issue in Centos 5.3

2009-09-29 Thread Dave Stevens
I manage a small server that I back up weekly. I do this by making a tarball of relevant files then transferring it over the local subnet to my station (Fedora 11), whereupon I burn it to DVD. There is no optical burner on the server. The tarball amounts to a bit under 5 gigs. Recently

Re: [CentOS] yum issue with extras repo? OMG OMFG OMFFG!!!

2009-09-12 Thread Dave Stevens
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 01:02:53 pm Dave Stevens wrote: Hello All, As you can see below I am having a problem checking for updates. This happens repeatedly. I have to kill the process then rerun. I have tried yum clean all but no joy - the process hangs again on extras - see second

Re: [CentOS] yum issue with extras repo?

2009-09-12 Thread Dave Stevens
On Friday 11 September 2009 10:47:31 am Jim Perrin wrote: yum -d6 check-update Like this: [r...@cserver ~]# yum -d6 check-update Loading fastestmirror plugin Loading priorities plugin Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Running config handler for priorities plugin Config time: 0.449

[CentOS] yum issue with extras repo?

2009-09-09 Thread Dave Stevens
Hello All, As you can see below I am having a problem checking for updates. This happens repeatedly. I have to kill the process then rerun. I have tried yum clean all but no joy - the process hangs again on extras - see second listing below. Suggestions? Dave [r...@cserver ~]# yum

Re: [CentOS] Million linux virtual machines

2009-08-05 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Jake Shipton jak...@hotmail.co.uk: On 05/08/09 14:15, Bob Hoffman wrote: ~Snip~ Scientists get a million Linux kernels to run at once ~Snip~ (how long before shared hosts use thislol) ~Snip! ~ see here: http://xkcd.com/619/ Dave

Re: [CentOS] One of my servers crashed, need help

2009-06-18 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Filipe Brandenburger filbran...@gmail.com: Hi, On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 14:20, Gilbert Sebensteseben...@weather.admin.niu.edu wrote: No need to...Seagate screws me again. 3rd bad hard drive on this server. Unbelievable. Under warranty, but...g. I heard something about the 1.5TB

Re: [CentOS] OT: Photo Editor to reduce 272 photos to VGA at once

2009-05-07 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Bill Campbell cen...@celestial.com: On Thu, May 07, 2009, John R Pierce wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: I returned from Bogotá and have a Folder with 272 photos that total 419.9 MB. I would like to email them to several people who were there for the concerts I attended. I have Picasa,

Re: [CentOS] Is there a web-based server status package?

2009-03-24 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Xn Nooby xno...@gmail.com: I have a small squirrelmail server using Postfix Dovecot, and I would like to add a web-based status screen to remotely check its health. Is there a preferred packaged for doing this? I mostly want to monitor disk space usage, and CPU utilization.

[CentOS] cpu load monitoring

2009-01-22 Thread Dave Stevens
Hi, I have a server running Centos 5.2 and am implementing a GIS mapserver app. I have some sample logs from another implementation that give me an idea of bandwidth requirements but I would like to check the cpu load. I can not be at the server during the test and am interested in knowing if

[CentOS] anyone using an ATI card and fglrx with 5.2?

2009-01-12 Thread Dave Stevens
And does it work ok? any special use cases or installation issues? I'm thinking of a 64 bit installation with an RV530 chipset. Dave -- Canada must refuse to be entangled in any more wars fought to make the world safe for capitalism. -- The Regina Manifesto, 1933

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 yum check-update fails - repo change?

2008-12-15 Thread Dave Stevens
On Saturday 13 December 2008 03:32:20 am Kai Schaetzl wrote: Dave Stevens wrote on Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:32:51 -0800: #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/$basearch mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5arch=$ basearch Hm, not hardcoded then. I

[CentOS] Centos 5.2 yum check-update fails - repo change?

2008-12-12 Thread Dave Stevens
A couple of days ago I run yum update to take care of installing new updates for evolution.i386, evolution-data-server.i386 and nscd.i386 . The update went through with no fuss. Yesterday when I ran check-update I got the exact same updates list. So I did not run yum update, thinking this was a

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 yum check-update fails - repo change?

2008-12-12 Thread Dave Stevens
On Friday 12 December 2008 12:31:47 pm Kai Schaetzl wrote: Dave Stevens wrote on Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:22:46 -0800: Anyone know why this happens or what to do? I see the epel mirror has changed No, the mirror for base changed. Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml

Re: [CentOS] Re: mapserver experience?

2008-11-13 Thread Dave Stevens
On Friday 07 November 2008 09:29:42 am Dave Stevens wrote: On Friday 07 November 2008 12:39:50 am Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: 2008/11/7 Scott Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]: on 11-6-2008 3:35 PM Dave Stevens spake the following: I have Centos 5.2 and want to install mapserver. On my Fedora 7 box

Re: [CentOS] Re: mapserver experience?

2008-11-13 Thread Dave Stevens
On Thursday 13 November 2008 02:09:53 pm Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: 2008/11/13 Dave Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Friday 07 November 2008 09:29:42 am Dave Stevens wrote: On Friday 07 November 2008 12:39:50 am Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: 2008/11/7 Scott Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]: on 11-6

Re: [CentOS] Re: mapserver experience?

2008-11-07 Thread Dave Stevens
On Friday 07 November 2008 12:39:50 am Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: 2008/11/7 Scott Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]: on 11-6-2008 3:35 PM Dave Stevens spake the following: I have Centos 5.2 and want to install mapserver. On my Fedora 7 box it is in the repo. Should I just enable that repo? Anyone done

[CentOS] mapserver experience?

2008-11-06 Thread Dave Stevens
I have Centos 5.2 and want to install mapserver. On my Fedora 7 box it is in the repo. Should I just enable that repo? Anyone done this? Tips/warnings? Dave -- Canada must refuse to be entangled in any more wars fought to make the world safe for capitalism. -- The Regina Manifesto, 1933