[CentOS] Dock an application in system tray

2009-03-24 Thread Senthilraj
Hi, Im using CentOS 4.4 , and wanted to dock an application into my System tray(without using any external tool like Alldock, etc,.). Thanks, Senthilraj ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-24 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 24, 2009, at 7:12 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Luke S Crawford wrote: >> >>> i would like to see real performance data via something like netperf >>> with client machines booted from a standardized LiveCD, then >>> peformance under their Linux Distribution and performance under >>> Windows. >

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Luke S Crawford wrote: > >> i would like to see real performance data via something like netperf >> with client machines booted from a standardized LiveCD, then >> peformance under their Linux Distribution and performance under >> Windows. > > > Performance data is not the most important metric,

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-24 Thread Luke S Crawford
Rob Townley writes: > i would like to see real performance data via something like netperf > with client machines booted from a standardized LiveCD, then > peformance under their Linux Distribution and performance under > Windows. Performance data is not the most important metric, at least for

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 24, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: >> The $ the project receives goes for hardware and network >> connectivity. > > That is not true. > > Money donated to the project goes to sit in a pot. Resources that we > use > to do things on and with are on machin

Re: [CentOS] Limiting maildir sizes with Postfix?

2009-03-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009, nate wrote: >Xn Nooby wrote: > >> How should I limit the Mailbox size of the users? >> >> I'm not very familiar with Linux "quotas", but I think that is my only >> other choice. > >That is a good option, if you happen to be using Courier for your >IMAP/POP3 this option exists

Re: [CentOS] update yum

2009-03-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:09 AM, madunix wrote: >> Am trying to update my wine i get the following .. >> [] download]# yum update wine* >> Loading "priorities" plugin >> Loading "fastestmirror" plugin >> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile >> * epel: ftp.nluug.nl >>

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Rainer Duffner wrote: > >> i am often not very >> impressed by network performance and need standardized benchmarks to >> figure out if there may be an issue at the NIC driver, switch or on up >> to a virus shield. It was either a ~2004 Dell Power magazine or >> ~2004 Network World article that

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: >> The $ the project receives goes for hardware and network connectivity. > > That is not true. > > Money donated to the project goes to sit in a pot. Resources that we use > to do things on and with are on machines that

Re: [CentOS] update yum

2009-03-24 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:09 AM, madunix wrote: > Am trying to update my wine i get the following .. > [] download]# yum update wine* > Loading "priorities" plugin > Loading "fastestmirror" plugin > Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile >  * epel: ftp.nluug.nl >  * rpmforge: fr2.rpmfind.net >

Re: [CentOS] Limiting maildir sizes with Postfix?

2009-03-24 Thread nate
Xn Nooby wrote: > How should I limit the Mailbox size of the users? > > I'm not very familiar with Linux "quotas", but I think that is my only > other choice. That is a good option, if you happen to be using Courier for your IMAP/POP3 this option exists as well: http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/R

Re: [CentOS] mmonit - Permission denied errot

2009-03-24 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 5:16 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > I just downloaded the mmonit from mmonit.com site on my CentOS box > untarred-unizipped it. > As per the documentation, I dutifully typed > ./bin/mmonit > and it is refusing to run. I am running this as root and SELinux is disabled.

[CentOS] Limiting maildir sizes with Postfix?

2009-03-24 Thread Xn Nooby
I have a small Squirrelmail server, using Postfix & Dovecot. I am trying to limit the amount of mail a user can get. The "mailbox_size_limit" value does not seem to be being honored. I am using the Maildir directory format. >From googling, it appears that "mailbox_size_limit" applies to a single f

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

2009-03-24 Thread Xn Nooby
I'll get it from EPEL, since it is Fedora-sponsored. On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Florin Andrei wrote: > Marko A. Jennings wrote: >> >> You might want to try munin: http://munin.projects.linpro.no/ >> It is available through the rpmforge repo and is easy to set up. > > It's also on EPEL, and

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-24 Thread John R Pierce
Ross Walker wrote: > Look there really are 3 tiers for network equipment. The first two > tiers all give wire speed performance and have managed layer 2 and 3 > options. The last tier is for consumer home use. > > Tier 1 might have high-end Cisco, Juniper or Nortel (and others) that > have mo

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

2009-03-24 Thread Florin Andrei
Marko A. Jennings wrote: > > You might want to try munin: http://munin.projects.linpro.no/ > It is available through the rpmforge repo and is easy to set up. It's also on EPEL, and that's a repository that tends to create fewer issues. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#howtouse -- Florin

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

2009-03-24 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Xn Nooby : > 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. > ___

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Florin Andrei
Scott Silva wrote: > on 3-24-2009 9:53 AM Karanbir Singh spake the following: >> >> Also, were not getting ready for 5.4. were going to be getting ready for >> 4.8 first, then a CentOS6 Beta and then a 5.4. > > And then maybe you can take a breath? Yeah, no kidding. This is a lot of work, no mat

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
Scott Silva wrote: >> Also, were not getting ready for 5.4. were going to be getting ready for >> 4.8 first, then a CentOS6 Beta and then a 5.4. > > And then maybe you can take a breath? Thats a good point. One thing that I hope to work towards and I feel we are getting setup to do is get a con

Re: [CentOS] question about top output

2009-03-24 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-24-2009 7:30 AM Greenseid, Joseph M (IS) spake the following: >> Can you swap the disk drives with a node that works OK? > > i will try that when i get back to the data center and can swap the nodes. > > >> Have you compared BIOS setups? Something tells me this is like >> interrupts related

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:18:58AM -0700, Scott Silva wrote: > And then maybe you can take a breath? > > You all are very appreciated. Don't let 10 or 20 (l)users make you > think that the other million or so aren't happy!! ;-) I certainly hope this isn't in response to those of us who have pipe

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-24 Thread John Doe
One thing to remember is that you usualy get what you paid for... I found out the hard way when my boss pushed me to buy brand XYZ PowerC... switches because they were a half the price of other brands/models. It said "web-managed"... and it really meant web (only) managed (not even SSL encrypted

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-24-2009 9:53 AM Karanbir Singh spake the following: > Morten Torstensen wrote: >> Can gcc/make be distributed? Could people dedicate their CPU time ala >> SETI or fold...@home to test builds and compiles? I am not sure where >> the bottleneck is, and I know throwing money and manpower does n

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Tue, March 24, 2009 1:13 pm, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Karanbir Singh wrote: >> Money donated to the project goes to sit in a pot. Resources that we use >> to do things on and with are on machines that we ( developers, centos >> team and contributors ) pay for, manage and run ourselves. CentOS doe

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
Karanbir Singh wrote: > Money donated to the project goes to sit in a pot. Resources that we use > to do things on and with are on machines that we ( developers, centos > team and contributors ) pay for, manage and run ourselves. CentOS does > not subsidise or pay for any of it. Just to clarify

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
Lanny Marcus wrote: > The $ the project receives goes for hardware and network connectivity. That is not true. Money donated to the project goes to sit in a pot. Resources that we use to do things on and with are on machines that we ( developers, centos team and contributors ) pay for, manage a

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 49, Issue 10

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Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
Morten Torstensen wrote: > Can gcc/make be distributed? Could people dedicate their CPU time ala > SETI or fold...@home to test builds and compiles? I am not sure where > the bottleneck is, and I know throwing money and manpower does not > always help when it comes to software development :) Th

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-24 Thread nate
dnk wrote: > I had a reseller in here yesterday, and apparently the linksys (higher > end) lines are being merged into the cisco lines. So the linksys gear > will just be branded Cisco. I am not sure if this is all linksys gear, > or just what they cal the higher end stuff. But I am trying to conf

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-24 Thread dnk
Look there really are 3 tiers for network equipment. The first two tiers all give wire speed performance and have managed layer 2 and 3 options. The last tier is for consumer home use. Tier 1 might have high-end Cisco, Juniper or Nortel (and others) that have modular enclosures redundant power s

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-24 Thread nate
Rob Townley wrote: > i would not be surprised if most SOHO networks may not even have layer > 2 manageablity. > How do you know it isn't something to be concerned about unless you > have data from various manufacturers and various NICs? I don't deal with SOHO networks(outside of my own which only

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-24 Thread Rob Townley
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Rob Townley schrieb: >> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Rainer Duffner >> wrote: >> >>> Rob Townley schrieb: >>> Every time i read these posts they are filled with contradictions in that one person loves HP and hates CiscoLink

Re: [CentOS] update yum

2009-03-24 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-24-2009 2:27 AM madunix spake the following: > Can you help me further in this issue, should i disable rpm forge .. > You should at least properly configure priorities. ust having the plugin running is not enough. http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities -- MailScanner is li

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-24 Thread Rainer Duffner
Rob Townley schrieb: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Rainer Duffner > wrote: > >> Rob Townley schrieb: >> >>> Every time i read these posts they are filled with contradictions in >>> that one person loves HP and hates CiscoLinksys while another hates >>> HP. Let's get a more scientif

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-24 Thread Rob Townley
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:59 AM, nate wrote: > Rainer Duffner wrote: > >> Switch performance is extremely difficult to measure IMO. You need >> enough clients to make sure you're not accidentally measuring >> client-performance. > > There's also a lot more to switches than pure performance, line

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

2009-03-24 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Tue, March 24, 2009 12:02 pm, Xn Nooby wrote: > 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 u

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-24 Thread Rob Townley
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Rob Townley schrieb: >> >> Every time i read these posts they are filled with contradictions in >> that one person loves HP and hates CiscoLinksys while another hates >> HP.  Let's get a more scientific approach.  Switch performance still >

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

2009-03-24 Thread Xn Nooby
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. __

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-24 Thread nate
Rainer Duffner wrote: > Switch performance is extremely difficult to measure IMO. You need > enough clients to make sure you're not accidentally measuring > client-performance. There's also a lot more to switches than pure performance, line rate switches have been around for at least a decade(swi

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-24 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
> Tier 2 might have Dell Powerconnects and HP Procurves and Cisco 2000 > series products. These are good stable well performing products and > are gobbled up in heaps by small and medium businesses. These are the > usual choice for small enterprises and come in managed and unmanaged, > lay

Re: [CentOS] hplip problems - configure: error: "cannot find libjpeg support"

2009-03-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 24 March 2009 15:22:19 Roger Wells wrote: > Anne et al., > I have been out for a while. Has any resolution to this occurred. I am > still interested in it working correctly > even though I seem to have a "kludge" sort of working, i.e. I can scan & > print, no fax but I can live with th

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-24 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 24, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Rob Townley wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Christopher Chan > wrote: >> >>> * vlans >>> * mstp or some well established form of per vlan spanning tree >>> * acl's >>> * port mirroring or what cisco calls span sessions >>> * snmp >>> * ssh enabled remote m

Re: [CentOS] SATA tape drive on 4.7

2009-03-24 Thread C Linus Hicks
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 22:22 -0400, C Linus Hicks wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 00:39 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: > > > This seems it may be a bad memory issue. When star is running it is > > causing a lot of io to be cached putting pressure on regions of memory > > that might otherwise go unuse

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-24 Thread Rainer Duffner
Rob Townley schrieb: > > Every time i read these posts they are filled with contradictions in > that one person loves HP and hates CiscoLinksys while another hates > HP. Let's get a more scientific approach. Switch performance still > depends on the NICS in the client machines. Uhm. No. Not an

Re: [CentOS] hplip problems - configure: error: "cannot find libjpeg support"

2009-03-24 Thread Roger Wells
Anne et al., I have been out for a while. Has any resolution to this occurred. I am still interested in it working correctly even though I seem to have a "kludge" sort of working, i.e. I can scan & print, no fax but I can live with that. roger wells Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 16 March 2009

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-24 Thread Rob Townley
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: > >> * vlans >> * mstp or some well established form of per vlan spanning tree >> * acl's >> * port mirroring or what cisco calls span sessions >> * snmp >> * ssh enabled remote management >> * support w/ updates and bugfixes >> >> >> I need

Re: [CentOS] question about top output

2009-03-24 Thread Greenseid, Joseph M (IS)
> Can you swap the disk drives with a node that works OK? i will try that when i get back to the data center and can swap the nodes. > Have you compared BIOS setups? Something tells me this is like > interrupts related. Could even be poorly seated hardware: memory, power > or data cables, video,

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Phil Schaffner
ward.p.fonte...@wellsfargo.com wrote: > My thoughts exactly > > -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf > Of Noob Centos Admin > Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:00 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Getting ready

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] Disks do not mount at boot

2009-03-24 Thread Theo Band
Theo Band wrote: > I have a problem with two entries in my /etc/fstab. When I boot the > machine, the disks are not mounted. When I give mount -a, all disks are > present without an error. Of course I don't want to manually do that > after each reboot. What can be the problem? > Turned out that

Re: [CentOS] mmonit - Permission denied errot

2009-03-24 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
SOLVED! On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > Sorry for answering my own mail Turns out that the location where the file is happens to be another partition mounted with user option. And that enables noexec. remounted the partition with exec option and thing

Re: [CentOS] update yum

2009-03-24 Thread madunix
i did with your suggestions, it works On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Christoph Neuhaus wrote: >> Can you help me further in this issue, should i disable rpm forge .. > > 1. Please don't top post. > 2. You have to decide for yourself which repo you want to use for the wine > packages. Just don'

Re: [CentOS] mmonit - Permission denied errot

2009-03-24 Thread John Doe
From: Rajagopal Swaminathan > As per the documentation, I dutifully typed ./bin/mmonit > and it is refusing to run. I am running this as root and SELinux is disabled. > ... > (Permission denied) > ... > What am I missing here? Did you check the file and directory permissions? JD _

[CentOS] mmonit - Permission denied errot

2009-03-24 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, I just downloaded the mmonit from mmonit.com site on my CentOS box untarred-unizipped it. As per the documentation, I dutifully typed ./bin/mmonit and it is refusing to run. I am running this as root and SELinux is disabled. running it with strace spews the following (in entireity):

Re: [CentOS] update yum

2009-03-24 Thread Christoph Neuhaus
> Can you help me further in this issue, should i disable rpm forge .. 1. Please don't top post. 2. You have to decide for yourself which repo you want to use for the wine packages. Just don't mix them! Chris ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] how to access encrypted EXT3 partition from Windows

2009-03-24 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:16:11AM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > So, does anyone know how to access (read & write) to EXT3 from Windows? Why bother? TrueCrypt is cross-platform and will work for your needs. John -- "I'

Re: [CentOS] update yum

2009-03-24 Thread madunix
Can you help me further in this issue, should i disable rpm forge .. Thanks On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Christoph Neuhaus wrote: >> [] download]# yum update wine* >> Loading "priorities" plugin > > Good. > > >>  * epel: ftp.nluug.nl >>  * rpmforge: fr2.rpmfind.net > > Trouble's ahead... >

[CentOS] how to access encrypted EXT3 partition from Windows

2009-03-24 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi all, I know some may find this OT, so please ignore this if you think it's OT. I don't know any Linux-friendly Windows mailing lists / forums that will even bother with Linux related questions. I want to carry some data (client info, documents, photos, email, accounting stuff, etc) with me on

[CentOS] Disks do not mount at boot

2009-03-24 Thread Theo Band
I have a problem with two entries in my /etc/fstab. When I boot the machine, the disks are not mounted. When I give mount -a, all disks are present without an error. Of course I don't want to manually do that after each reboot. What can be the problem? CentOS 5.2 cat /etc/fstab /dev/vg/centos

Re: [CentOS] update yum

2009-03-24 Thread Christoph Neuhaus
> [] download]# yum update wine* > Loading "priorities" plugin Good. > * epel: ftp.nluug.nl > * rpmforge: fr2.rpmfind.net Trouble's ahead... > 0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Uhoh! Looks like you did not configure the priorities. > ---> Package wine-cms.i386 0:

[CentOS] update yum

2009-03-24 Thread madunix
Am trying to update my wine i get the following .. [] download]# yum update wine* Loading "priorities" plugin Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * epel: ftp.nluug.nl * rpmforge: fr2.rpmfind.net * base: ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de * updates: ftp.halifax.rwt