Re: [CentOS] Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers
Alfredo Perez wrote: I will add to that list, change ssh port 22 to somthing else Why? Most of the script kiddies now check all the higher ports for ssh too. Moving ssh's port around solves nothing. Cheers, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ReiserFS
Bill Campbell wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is their any gotcha when using ResiserFs as a file system? We used reiserfs for a while on SuSE systems thinking that it would be OK because it was the default. Unfortunately I have had several occassions where we had massive data loss with reiserfs so haven't used for several years. We moved to ext3 on the ``/'' file system with xfs on other file systems on SuSE with no problems. The ext3 systems seem to be bullet proof, and xfs doesn't require fsck in most cases. We have used ext3 on all the CentOS systems as it doesn't support xfs in the default configuration. I also played around with Reiser for a while. If you want a fire and forget solution, it isn't for you. As several others have mentioned, you need to jump through a lot of extra hoops to keep it operating and the data loss can be catestrophic if it fails. All that hassle for a bit of extra disk performance isn't really worth it. EXT3 is plenty fast enough for me. On the flipside, perhaps if you call Hans and agree to cover his legal bills you can get a good lifetime support contract. :) Cheers, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: ReiserFS
Scott Silva wrote: On the flipside, perhaps if you call Hans and agree to cover his legal bills you can get a good lifetime support contract. :) Cheers, Last I heard, he was being investigated for a possible lifetime commitment. But that was a while ago. Heh. Before the topic police scold us The other reason I'd avoid reiserfs is that namesys (the company that was developing reiserfs) is effectively shut now. Hans was unable to sell the company before it just fizzled into obscurity. That doesn't mean that someone else won't pick up the ball and run with it (it is, after all, open source), but I don't think I'd be willing to bet the farm on it remaining a viable alternative to ext3 for the long haul in a production environment...even if you ignore the other problems mentioned earlier. Cheers, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] VPN in China for our server [OT?]
Les Bell wrote: Jason Pyeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are setting up a new server (prefer centos4 vs 5) what should we do for a coporate vpn back to the US? Your first step should be to get on top of the regulations regarding use of cryptography in China. Here's a starting point: http://rechten.uvt.nl/koops/cryptolaw/cls2.htm#prc. You may well require a licence from the State Encryption Management Commission. A-yup. It is technically illegal to set up a virtual private network without the necessary paperwork. I'm not sure how strictly it's enforced (many things in China are only enforced if someone in authority has it out for you), but I suspect if you're running an actual business in China it is better to comply with their regulations than to roll the dice and risk getting busted. There are a few people on the list that run and/or work at Chinese datacenters so I'm sure someone will chime in with their experiences soon. Good luck! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2.5 when ?
Mark Weaver wrote: The only other apps that were on the system at the time was a php web site and forum. --- Heh. Yep, those PHP web forums have a squeaky clean track record. *rolling eyes* ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.0 /proc Backup/Restore
Jim Perrin wrote: /proc and /sys are essentially 'runtime' filesystems which provide information about your system, including memory use, available hardware, various performance settings, etc. The files in here can vary greatly and should not be backed up like you would with /usr/ or /var/. Mostly, you should skip /proc and /sys for your backup procedures. Exactly. I can't think of any reason at all why you'd want to back up the contents of /proc unless you absolutely needed a snapshot of the system at a point in time for forensic reasons. Cheers, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] max mount count incovenient
Linux Man wrote: Hello group I added a new partition in fstab, and works without a problem. I used mkfs.ext3 to create the partition. My problem is that every 26 boots, the system tells that the partition have no been checked since 26 systems boots, ant start to check my new partition. This is a lot of time consuming, and always is in a bad time. There some way to do the check in a controlled time? i.e. do it the check before 26 system boot, when the time is no problem. Thanks a lot The answers you seek can be found by reading the tune2fs man page. :) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Probably OT: Has anyone else seen SeaMonkey 'pop' without warning?
fred smith wrote: Firefox does this to me quite frequently, and it always has. every new release they say they've improved the stability, but it hasn't made any improvement for me in terms of this issue. I recently downloaded the firefox source and did my own build, just to see if the failures might have been due to some small incompatibility between the target system the official binaries are built for, and my box. Sad to say that while it may not die as often, it still does it. This doesn't answer the original poster's question, but As far as Firefox is concerned you might want to try giving 3.0b2 a try. I found it to be significantly more stable than the 1.5.X branch under Winders and on various Macs (haven't gotten around to trying it on a CentOS 5.X desktop box yet). Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: Firewall frustration
Ugo Bellavance wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 08:57:22 -0500 Robert Moskowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you ever thought about how rare floppy drives are now? At best you go with a bootable usb, if your notebook supports bootable USB. My Libretto does have a bootable floppy, but that is something extra to carry. It will not boot from anything else (besides its HD). My nc4010 (this notebook) will boot from usb. My corp notebook (nc2400) is locked down; and I don't see any value at getting corp IT bent out of shape. why would you even think about using a Notebook computer as a firewall? I was assuming you were going to delegate this task to an older machine with sufficient resources to handle the task and not give the task to a notebook computer. I guess he wants it to be portable. He seems to be knowing his requirements a lot better than we do. It looks like he wants an easy firewall that would boot for HD only, cost nothing, and runs with usb ethernet devices. I really think he should carry an embedded firewall (like a soekris or a wrap) with pfsense on it. Old laptops make pretty good firewalls, I think. They take little space, have a built-in battery backup and built-in keyboard/monitor to use when you are visiting the datacenter. I have repurposed a couple of older laptops for these reasons since the machine doesn't need to be very fast to accomplish the mission. A lot of 3-4 year old laptops cave in under the weight of Windows, but are really overkill for a simple unix firewall. Better than sending them to the dustbin. Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Help with full and incremental dumps
John R Pierce wrote: I dunno, but `man dump` and `man restore` should tell you about all you need to know. There's a joke in there somewhere ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Help with dump/restore
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: I'm a big fan and long-time user of amanda, but it's appropriateness here depends on your needs (which you haven't fully spelled out). I'd have to concur. Dump has bitten me in the behind (uhernevermind) a few times when I *really* needed it to work. :) This doesn't solve your problem, but amanda isn't that hard to install if you have the option of trying an alternate tool to get your job done. Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: VS: [CentOS] take plunge and yum update to 4.6
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use apache, mysql and php from centosplus. Anyone updating similar to 4.6? Just took the plunge on a couple dozen boxes without incident so far. They are all LAMP machines so you should be OK too. Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Home Theater Thing
I checked Best Buy again. The second system I recommended is in stock at the Best Buy in Warwick. It's on sale for $353. :) http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8254569type=productid=1169512522677 I'm thinking about getting out of Dodge today to unwind so if you pick it up early today I can come up and help you install it and then just come home later in the day. Cheers, your son -- Chris Mauritz [EMAIL PROTECTED] EVP Chief Technology Officer Global Music International http://www.imntv.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Home Theater Thing
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Re: [CentOS] Home Theater Thing
Jim Perrin wrote: Will you help us install it to? :-P Hey, what's a geek son to do? My folks can't even set the time on their VCR. It is, after all, the holiday season. It also makes it a lot more bearable for their son to have some A/V distractions on those long family visits. :) Again, sorry for the misdirected email everyone. Good thing it wasn't to my girlfriendwhat would my wife think about that as she googles my name?!!?! hehe (Honey, I kid I swear!!!) Happy holidays to all. Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Home Theater Thing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is a VCR? It's an ancient thinking machine typically installed over a television set (not to be confused with a plasma or LCD screen like we have in modern timesI'm talking 60kg of honest-to-goodness picture tube, m8) that was often used to tell time. Periodically, after a power outage, its secondary purpose was to summon the eldest born of the clan to chant some strange incantation while holding a handheld keypad to cajole the benevolent time spirit back into the device. You can still sometimes find them in museums (or my parents house...which is oddly similar to a museum). Some people also used them to make copies of talking movies, but I'm not sure if my folks ever got around to that. It does, however, work great for playing a 20 year old copy of the Sands of Iwo Jima, though it seems to get grainier upon each visit. Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Home Theater Thing
Dennis McLeod wrote: What's the first recommendation? It was something for about the same price from Sony, but I'm afraid if I recommended that slashdot.com will null route my home IP address. :D ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] After 5.1 update $releasever is still 5
Bernard Lheureux wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 06:58 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: But in the 4.xx version when you do a 'cat /etc/redhat-release' it shows you the version CentOS release 4.5 (Final) for example, now with version 5 after the upgrade to version 5.1 if you do a 'cat /etc/redhat-release' it always shows CentOS release 5 (Final) and not CentOS release 5.1 (Final) Agreed. That was the source of a bit of head scratching here as well. Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS on Laptops
Ern jura wrote: Sorry this question is not directly linked but has anyone ever bought a laptop from www.laptopplblahblabla http://www.laptopplaza.com or www.stop4whblahblah http://www.stop4wholesale.com, I want to buy one for CentOS and they seem to have good deals. Are they genuine and are there any sites out there that sell laptops and ship worldwide? This is spam. Both of those companies have the same address (in Brooklyn, NY). They don't accept credit cards and only will take payment in cash/wire transfer. Even if they are legit, that is just BEGGING to get ripped off, especially if you're an overseas customer. Better to buy from a reputable company that will accept a credit card payment. Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: What is equivalent to MS OUTLOOK ?
Scott Silva wrote: on 12/13/2007 11:05 AM John R Pierce spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: Try Thunderbird with the Calendar plug-in. No windows version that I am aware of. Hmmm? I run Thunderbird on my Windows all the time. But the top-posted part I replied to was about Evolution. quote evolution Actually, if you're using Windows XP (32-bit), Evolution does work. At least according to these folks: http://shellter.sourceforge.net/evolution/ Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: What is equivalent to MS OUTLOOK ?
Scott Silva wrote: evolution Actually, if you're using Windows XP (32-bit), Evolution does work. At least according to these folks: http://shellter.sourceforge.net/evolution/ Best, After trying this, it doesn't work very well. These aren't the droids we're looking for. You can go about your business. Move along. Move along. I haven't actually tried it myself since I'm satisfied with Thunderbird. What exactly was wrong with it? I've never used Evolution (even on Linux) since it always seemed rather buggy to me. Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] SD cards
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to read a 4gb SD HD card class 6 [hispeed], and Centos 5.1 does not recognize it. with dmesg|less I get [1616752.815569] sdf: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00 [1616752.815571] sdf: assuming drive cache: write through [1616754.813229] sdf : READ CAPACITY failed. [1616754.813231] sdf : status=0, message=00, host=1, driver=00 [1616754.813240] sdf : sense not available. When I connect through the same hardware a just 1Gb SD card, it's ok. Any suggestion? My understanding is that the HSSD/SDHC cards have somehow changed the methodology of how the cards are formatted (or somesuch). M$ issued a patch recently to allow XP users to read these cards (Winders machines were unable to see them or saw incorrect capacities). So I suspect that some driver level patch needs to be made on your system. Notes for the 2.6.19 kernel indicate that some support has been added in recent kernels, but it's anyone's guess if/when Redhat will backport that stuff to our older kernels. Cheers, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Scary memory requirements for 5.1 graphic install
Stephen John Smoogen wrote: I would say that those systems may not be good candidates for future EL versions. The memory requirements for the Enterprise editions are going up with moore's law as more things get added to the wishbin 'of what everyone wants'. I say this as I look at my 256 MB servers and think that they will be EL-4 boxes from now on. Unless those machines are dinosaurs with RDRAM, why not just upgrade them? 256mb is pretty cheap these days.:) Best, . ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] dovecot errors after upgrade to 5.1
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Everyone, Looks like my Centos 5.0 mail server upgraded automatically last night to 5.1. It appears to have worked normally until about 16:00 CST when dovecot began to fail. I have rebooted the system to be able to use the 5.1 kernel, but dovecot still continues to fail. Has anyone else made this observation? My log entries are below Thanks in advance Greg Ennis Dec 3 19:11:29 Mail dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc15 starting up Dec 3 19:11:30 Mail dovecot: Temporary failure in creating login processes, slo wing down for now Dec 3 19:11:30 Mail dovecot: imap-login: imap-login: error while loading shared libraries: libsepol.so.1: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allo cate memory Dec 3 19:11:30 Mail last message repeated 2 times Dec 3 19:11:30 Mail dovecot: pop3-login: pop3-login: error while loading shared libraries: libsepol.so.1: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allo cate memory Dec 3 19:11:30 Mail last message repeated 2 times Dec 3 19:11:30 Mail dovecot: child 7342 (login) returned error 127 Dec 3 19:11:30 Mail dovecot: child 7343 (login) returned error 127 Dec 3 19:11:30 Mail dovecot: child 7344 (login) returned error 127 Dec 3 19:11:30 Mail dovecot: child 7345 (login) returned error 127 Dec 3 19:11:30 Mail dovecot: child 7346 (login) returned error 127 Dec 3 19:11:30 Mail dovecot: child 7347 (login) returned error 127 Do you have SELinux turned on? If so, do things begin working if you turn it off? Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: ****Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 and removing sendmail
Joseph L. Casale wrote: What is it you are trying to accomplish? --nodeps is almost always the WRONG answer. Well, just starting my adventure in learning Linux. My immediate need is a spam gateway, and all the how-to's I find are for distributions I either don't want to use or are very old, not to mention just copying commands isn't an effective way to learn. I have decided to stick with CentOS and learn using it, that being said I have loosely decided on a few apps to use for this server: postfix, amavisd-new, clamav and spam assassin. I was hoping to setup a minimal install and start from there, which brought up an interesting scenario. When installing basically nothing except text internet, editors and base, I unchecked sendmail and noticed exim was automatically installed (even though it's not even an option)! Fortunately I am using esx and creating vm's and snapping them to test stuff makes learning very easy! I wonder if base is not even selected if any MTA is installed? Thanks for the pointer on --nodeps (I can see why that logically can be a problem). I think the underlying problem here is that you're using rpm rather than the yum package management system (which is what CentOS wants). Installing/removing things willy nilly with rpm is going to get you into trouble unless you really know what you're doing (and you've indicated that you don't...hehe). Removing sendwhale is as simple as yum remove sendmail. It will warn you if there are any dependencies and you can go from there. I generally remove sendmail first thing and then do yum install postfix. Once postfix is installed you can season it to taste by visiting the config files in /etc/postfix. There are numerous guides out there on how to configure postfix to filter spam and/or work with outside applications to do the deed. You might want to start off by skimming through Johnny Hughes' instructions for installing various mail bits here: http://www.hughesjr.com/content/category/4/15/29/ and then try reading through stuff like this: http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_spam_filter_mail_gateway Once you've gotten things up and working you can spend some quality time delving into the minutiae. Personally, I like to avoid hand compiling anything these days (to the extent possible), as it really simplifies upgrades and potential conflicts down the road. Between the base install and the extras repository, you should have most, if not all, of what you need to build a reasonably effective spam trap. Good luck! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] x86_64 versus i386
Manish Kathuria wrote: Hello, On the Intel Core 2 Duo processor based systems, we have the option of installing either x86_64 or the i386 distribution. I would like to know your experiences with the x86_64 port. How does it compare with the i386 distribution in terms of stability, reliability and performance ? How significant are the performance benefits gained by using the x86_64 linux instead of i386 on the same system ? Keeping in mind a production environment, which port of CentOS do you recommend for a Core 2 Duo based server ? It would be great to have your opinion. Are these server machines or desktops/notebooks? If the former, there isn't really any compelling reason to avoid the 64-bit version of the distribution. On desktops, there are occasional gotchas with 3-rd party add-ons for your web browser and other creature comfort nuisance level things. But those are mostly resolved at this juncture. I had problems on a few desktop machines with various firefox plug-ins so I reverted to 32-bits and the problems vanished. I haven't revisited the problem since 5.0 was released so maybe things have gotten better. Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: Adobe products under Linux?
Scott Silva wrote: I think you should go for windows XP, as support for these apps is much better than in centos IMO and 4 gigs should be fine for a desktop I'm not sure if Windows XP will do 8 cpu's. I don't think it will. I was under the impression that the non-server incarnations were limited to two physical cpus. (Which could theoretically get you to 8 cores with quad-core processors). Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT: RH 4/5 and 3Ware 9550SX firmware upgrades
Chris Mauritz wrote: I've just noticed that 3Ware has a more current version of the firmware for the 9500S than I have on several machines. All of mine are running: 3w-9xxx: scsi0: Firmware FE9X 3.04.00.005, BIOS BE9X 3.04.00.002, Ports: 8. and the latest rev appears to be 3.08. I'm wondering if there is any compelling reason to upgrade or just let these sleeping dogs lie. :) Any sage (or other) advice would be much appreciated. Since nobody else responded... :) I threw caution to the wind and updated my firmware (turns out the machines were using 9550SX controllers, not 9500) from 3.04 to 3.08 on a couple of production CentOS 4 and my test CentOS 5 machines. EXT3 performance seems to have improved noticeably on the RAID 0 devices I tested so it might be worth the update. Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT: RH 4/5 and 3Ware 9550SX firmware upgrades
Karanbir Singh wrote: Chris Mauritz wrote: I threw caution to the wind and updated my firmware (turns out the machines were using 9550SX controllers, not 9500) from 3.04 to 3.08 on a couple of production CentOS 4 and my test CentOS 5 machines. EXT3 performance seems to have improved noticeably on the RAID 0 devices I tested so it might be worth the update. Some numbers would be good... like bonnie++ results, and some feedback as to what the config of your raid setup is like. Sorry, I'm not at the office anymore. The configuration of my test CentOS 5 machine looks like this: Dual Opteron 270 (4 cores total) 2gig RAM OS on a standalone 80gig SATA disk 3Ware 9550SX with 8 x 500gig Seagate 7200rpm SATA drives (firmware is now 3.0.8.00.016) The RAID device is configured as a large RAID0 device (it's mostly scratch uncompressed video and other temporary data) and is formatted as an EXT3 filesystem. According to bonnie++ (with a data set of 4GB), I was seeing writes around 325mb/sec and reads around 430mb/sec. Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] OT: RH 4/5 and 3Ware 9500 firmware upgrades
I've just noticed that 3Ware has a more current version of the firmware for the 9500S than I have on several machines. All of mine are running: 3w-9xxx: scsi0: Firmware FE9X 3.04.00.005, BIOS BE9X 3.04.00.002, Ports: 8. and the latest rev appears to be 3.08. I'm wondering if there is any compelling reason to upgrade or just let these sleeping dogs lie. :) Any sage (or other) advice would be much appreciated. Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] mp3 recorder?
Paul wrote: audacity should be able to do it and is available from rpmforge. My original message (above) says Audacity is not visually showing the audio line levels or wave form when recording, thus I am not convinced it is capturing anything. Which probably is an issue with your sound configuration somehow ... I've had issues getting audio in to work with a couple different cards because it's sometimes difficult to get the right input selected. My Sound Blaster Live 5.1 has literally a dozen different input sources to select from, finding the correct combination was a bit of trial error. I agree. I had similar issues and after some trial and error with my sound configuration I got the audio inputs for Audacity to behave as expected. It only took 10 minutes of fiddling on my relatively vanilla SP Live card. Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Migrate CentOS 3 to 4 to 5?
David Christopher Zentgraf wrote: Hi, After the previous debacle with PHP and MySQL it has been decided that we think about an upgrade from CentOS 3 to 5, since that would solve our problem, if successful. I tried finding information on how to best attempt this, but thanks to a plethora of contradictory information my head is now spinning with a few rpm (rounds per minute). The situation is as follows: Remote box at our host who offers CentOS 3 as the most up-to-date OS, unless you pay them an unholy amount of money for RHEL or Windows licences. Popping in a CD for an upgrade does not work for us. We can and will have the OS restored to a clean post-install state prior to updating. I have little intimate knowledge with CentOS, RPMs or yum, but general good UNIX experience. I know live yum migrations are greatly discouraged, but it seems to work for people. The most detailed instructions I seemed to be able to find are here: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=382 Can anybody confirm this to work, is there anything else that's implied but not spelled out? Another, differing approach seems to be this: http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/software/tc1000/rmredhat.htm Any ideas about it? Any hints, or rather detailed steps, would be greatly appreciated. I tried it and failed pretty miserably. The box wedged after the upgrade and would not boot after being power cycled. I didn't really do a detailed WTF analysis afterwards since we do have physical access to the machine. So I had someone pop in a CentOS 5 DVD and pave over the system and walked them through which options to check during the install. Once it was back up and reachable from the net, I selectively restored bits I needed from the backup I did before the experiment. This was a CentOS 3 machine on a pretty vanilla dual Opteron box and was patched up to the minute as of the day the upgrade was attempted. If you manage to sort things out, I'll be curious to know how you did it. Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Site about qmail (with CentOS as SO)
Christopher Chan wrote: It is like a step-by-step book, that intendes to *really* help people getting their servers up and running. I would really rather make qmail newbies go through the flames and really learn how qmail works than let them loose with a list of instructions. Just tell them to ask djb for help.or if you want to make things a little easier, you could just bathe them in honey and bury a manual at the bottom of a fire ant mound How about we talk about supporting MTAs that are actually distributed with CentOS (postfix/Sendmail) Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CD emulation (a la daemontools)
I was wondering if anyone was aware of a method for mounting virtual CD devices with CD image files. I keep images (.CUE/.BIN pairs) of my CD collection on a NAS appliance tucked away in my closet. I'd like to write a script to mount each one, create ID tags, rip the tracks, then move along to the next one. I figure with a quad core opteron, it should be able to crank through them in a few days (it's a few thousand CD's worth of images). Anyone done this before with their trusty CentOS box? I'd be using CentOS 5. Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Supermicro X7DVL-E and Xeon L5320 installation problems
Chris Boyd wrote: Tearing our hair out on this one. Trying to install CentOS 5 x86_64 on a Supermicro X7DVL-E with 2 Xeon L5320 quad core CPUs, 3Ware SATA RAID controller in a mirrored setup and 4 GB of memory. Installation crashes at random places while copying the files. We've run memtest86 for 24 hours without any errors, replaced the RAID controller, motherboard and disks, but still no luck. Any thoughts, hints or LARTs appreciated. I had similar issues on a recent install. It turned out to be errors on the install media (which I have gotten lazy about checking). I reburned the DVD (with verify enabled this time) and it worked just fine afterwards. Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Buggy SATA detection w/CentOS5 + Intel H6300ESB?
I've been handed a Supermicro system that is using the Intel® H6300ESB Serial ATA Controller (Supermicro P4SCI motherboard). When I install CentOS5, everything seems to work OK, but it has absolutely horrid disk performance. Upon further inspection, it seems that the SATA disks are being treated as legacy IDE devices using PIO. Gah Has anyone else had this problem? I recall having similar problems last year sometime with some Supermicro systems, but I can't seem to remember how I fixed it. :-) Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] openoffice 2.3 on centos 4.5
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:26:22 -0400 Jerry Geis [EMAIL PROTECTED] took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: Would I have to be concerned about any issues if I put open office 2.3 on centos 4.5? Anyone done it? Jerry I have it running on a fully updated CentOS 4 machine and it seems to be okay. I've only used the writer portion for a few documents though. I've been fairly absent from that laptop today. I don't recall having any issues on 4.5 either. I've used both the writer and spreadsheet apps without incident. Seems pretty solid and I'm trying to rely on it more so I can wean myself off M$ Office for good. Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] alternatives to realnetworks real producer plus and helix server
Robert - elists wrote: In CentOS and Linux land, what reliable alternatives do we have to realnetworks real producer plus and helix server for streaming audio and video ??? For streaming, I wouldn't waste any time at all on Helix server. Apple's Darwin Streaming Server is a much better choice. It is free and offers most of the functionality of Quicktime Streaming Server. It runs just fine on CentOS 4/5. For encoding, ffmpeg works well. For cutting up video there are a few options. The one with the best feature set is Cinelerra. If you've got access to a Windows box (or emulation of one), Virtualdub is also a good/cheap/functional editor. Cheers, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Centos as a desktop, advisable?
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Scott Moseman wrote: I'm running CentOS on my server and I don't feel it makes a great desktop since several of the major applications (OpenOffice, Firefox, etc) lag behind since it follows RHEL. I prefer to use something more dynamic and current on the desktop. Would you say the same if you had to herd several hundred desktops? I really do see CentOS (especially 5) as a viable alternative there. I agree completely. I don't see any real showstoppers that would prevent it from being a fine desktop. There are a few extras that I'd want to grab from the Fedora repos, but you can't beat the cost/stability/speedy updates/7 year EOL with a stick. Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] RAID hard drive serial numbers?
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: Actually, with 3ware, smartctl *can* see through the adapter to the disks behind it. E.g. (on a 9650): [EMAIL PROTECTED] jlb]$ sudo smartctl -i -d 3ware,0 /dev/twa0 [snip] 'man smartctl' has all the details. Outstanding! I wasn't aware of that. Thanks! Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Flash Media Server 2
Lam, Eric wrote: Hi, I need to install Flash Media Server on a Centos box. When running the installation script, I get a [EMAIL PROTECTED] FMS_2_0_3_r68_linux]# ./installFMS ./fmsini: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ERROR: Your are running the Macromedia Flash Media Server installer on the wrong platform. Please advise. Anyone have any experience installing FMS on Centos? Is there a RPM package? Should I just go into the script and remove the platform checking routine I believe that just means you don't have the compatibility libs installed. Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Postfix Question
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've googled around and although I get a lot of hits about postfix smarthost authentication with ssl, I can not find out how to actually accomplish the task. I've read through smatterings of postings from Neophasis and the like searching for just the syntax and what file (I assume it's main.cf) I should be using; however, any smtpd_ lines I have tried result in postfix hanging and refusing to deliver mail. I could simply cease using smarthost, but my ip address is dynamic (yes I know stop yelling at me I'm poor right now) so mail bounces to some domains if I don't use smarthost. The server I'm running postfix on is CentOS 4 (fully updated). Postfix version is 2.2.10-1.1.el4 (from rpm -qa). I have not had sufficient downtime to upgrade to CentOS 5. Should I do that. Adam Shostack had a howto on how to accomplish this at one point. I suspect it will turn up if you google around for it. Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Sparc
Akemi Yagi wrote: On 7/9/07, Adam Breaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/7/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By chance, has there been any progress on a 5.0 version for an Ultra Sparc? Debian 4 supports sparc well, has done so for a long time...biggest problem is having to netboot the installer, since most sparc boxes won't get past the initial loader stages booting the kernel, it's some known SILO issue thats been going on for a while. Most distro's seems to falter after an initial release on sparc...and quickly drop the platform. aurora sparc linux seems to be still actively developed. I used it a few years ago and it wasn't bad at all. Every time I feel like I have the time/energy to install Linux on an old Sparc box, I consider how much energy they use and how (relative to a modern PC) slow they now seem. Pretty amazing when you consider that the E450 that you'd now use to hold down paper once cost more than a luxury car. :) Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
