Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail question
Davy Leon wrote: Hi folks This question is about fetchmail running on my Centos 5.3 box. I need to fetch my email from different accounts living on remote servers and drop it on my local mailbox. The question is wich way is faster for fetchmail... using POP3 or IMAP? Thanks David ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I know I'm avoiding the direct question, but I use getmail to retrieve mail from a pop3 account and run it through procmail to distribute it to local imap folders. I'm not sure how well it works for multiple accounts, as I only use it for one account. It's been a while since I've set it up, so I don't remember too many details. Perhaps check it out if you feel you need an alternative to fetchmail, and if you need any help, I can go back and see how it's set up. -Brian ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] prioritizing repos
ken wrote: On 10/23/2009 10:22 AM Sharon Kimble wrote: 2009/10/23 Ralph Angenendt ralph.angene...@gmail.com mailto:ralph.angene...@gmail.com On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:23 PM, ken geb...@mousecar.com mailto:geb...@mousecar.com wrote: mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems freshrpms has no packages for CentOS. And never had. Thats a fedora core 6 rpm which maybe the reason why its not working properly. ... Hmmm. Okay. Too bad. Thanks for the explanation. However, I did successfully install gnumeric using yum from an RPM I got from freshrpms... a fluke, I guess. But so mplayer isn't available from CentOS? I was just looking at a way to prioritize repos so that freshrpms is at the bottom, i.e., so that it's sought only as a last resort: http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities. But the page doesn't quite get me all the way. How do I add an entry for freshrpms to /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo so I can specify a low priority for it? tia, ken ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Ken, You should have a freshrpms.repo file, or something similar, within the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory. Yum looks for all *.repo files and pulls from the repos listed within those files. Within each individual repo file is where you would designate the priority for it. You wont need to alter /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo to alter the priority for freshrpms. Might I suggest the rpmforge repo instead? Check out the following. http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge#head-20e1f65f19ccf2f5fbf5adb30dbaf5ea963a64ae Others might disagree, but I've had good luck with rpmforge. -Brian ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems
Jonathan Moore wrote: Hi there folks. I've been watching the never ending CentOS 5.4 OMG WHEN? threads for the last few days / weeks and had a question. I'm pretty new to anything rpm based. I used Red Hat 9 back in college, but that's about it. Currently, I do have a few Cent OS servers and we're slowly migrating from Debian to CentOS for various reasons. Since 5.3 - 5.4 is going to be my first major upgrade, I had a simple question. WHEN it's actually released, and things are going normal, should I just continue doing yum upgrade as always and will eventually be on 5.4? I seem to recall something with Fedora where you had to install some kind of release package, etc (again.. this was back in 2003 - 2004 time) and was just curious. Simple google searches tell me yes! just yum upgrade but I wanted input from you guys, if you don't mind. Thanks, Jonathan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I was just looking on the CentOS 5.4 wiki, which is still flagged as DRAFT, and it gives a few steps to go through for an upgrade. Check it out here. http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.4/#head-29511ff6659f6463d444feb92326ed2232fc8c08 -Brian ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Trouble running 'alsamixer' as normal user on headless box
Hi, I just transformed an old Pentium III 500 into a headless jukebox. It's installed in the basement, near the stereo. There's only a base CentOS system on it (GNOME unchecked, package customization checked and then everything unchecked). From there on, I just installed the ALSA utils, and vorbis-tools. The machine is only supposed to do one thing (and to do it well, UNIX philosophy :oD): fetch an audio stream (produced by MPD/Icecast upstairs on a big PC) and then output it from the soundcard to the AUX IN from the stereo. I have a partial - and near-total - success, in that everything runs fine... as root user. Whenever I try to run alsamixer as a normal user on that box, I get the following error message: [kikinovak at jukebox ~]$ alsamixer alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory ... Any idea what could be wrong here? Cheers from the hot south of France, Niki I realize this is an old thread, but I, too, was building a standalone jukebox last night and ran into this same issue. I was trying to configure the jukebox by SSHing into it, and I could only perform sound tasks, including running alsamixer and mpd, as root. Comparing to another CentOS box, the jukebox's /dev/dsp was owned by root and the other CentOS box's /dev/dsp was owned by the logged in user. Aha, I figured I needed to be logged in as a user to the physical jukebox machine in order to grant ownership to the soundcard. The jukebox had no user logged into it, as it had just rebooted. A solution, of course, would be to enable autologin on the jukebox. I can't give the technical answer as to why this happens, but just how it happens and how I managed to get it to work. I hope this helps. -Brian ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
