Re: [CentOS] install 5.5 x86-64 on DL320 G6

2011-02-15 Thread Alan Hodgson
On February 15, 2011 09:12:07 am Jerry Geis wrote: > I am trying to install on a DL320 proliant. > The disk is not being recognized. It fails when setting up disk with "no > devices" found. > I dont get an sda or cciss either one. > > I tried to disable the on board smart array controller? That di

Re: [CentOS] Blasphemous? any support for a REPO of current edition BIND, et al (e.g., BZ561299)?

2011-02-02 Thread Alan Hodgson
On February 2, 2011 10:02:03 am Larry Vaden wrote: > Is there that much distrust of the current output of leading authors > that we need to "wait a long while"? You don't need to wait at all. Build your own packages or install from source. ___ CentOS mai

Re: [CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread Alan Hodgson
On January 11, 2011 03:16:23 pm aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > mkpart 0 3T it works and the partition is 3TB. > > This is a hardware based Areca RAID. I didn't feel the need to load > any Areca drivers as Centos supports this out the box. > > Any ideas? > Maybe it can only make 16TB partitions?

Re: [CentOS] [OT] RHEVM List

2011-01-10 Thread Alan Hodgson
On January 9, 2011 04:26:50 pm Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > Can you pass along a copy of your configuration, especially > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ and relevant /etc/ settings for a > working KVM domain and network? I'd like to compare. Sent offline. ___

Re: [CentOS] [OT] RHEVM List

2011-01-09 Thread Alan Hodgson
On January 7, 2011 06:37:15 pm Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > I haven't tried that, but wouldn't you bridge the bond device instead of > > bonding bridged nics? > > That would make sense, but it didn't work at all. I assume this is > because the features are simply not simultaneously supportable. >

Re: [CentOS] Multiple LUN support

2011-01-05 Thread Alan Hodgson
On January 5, 2011 08:53:16 am Abilio Carvalho wrote: > I have Centos 5.2 and am trying to set up my first tape loader, a > Quantum SuperLoader 3. My "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" outputs the following: > > Attached devices: > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 >Vendor: transtec Model: PV610F16R1C

Re: [CentOS] Converting to maildir

2011-01-04 Thread Alan Hodgson
On January 4, 2011 07:36:27 am Lamar Owen wrote: > In my case, our primary e-mail server is Scalix, so that dictated the > storage format. But, honestly, I personally would love to use a > PostgreSQL backend so that real concurrent access is possible; dbmail with PostgreSQL works really well. I m

Re: [CentOS] do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

2010-12-22 Thread Alan Hodgson
On December 22, 2010 02:05:26 am Tony Mountifield wrote: > The thing you CAN'T do is to have name-based virtual hosting with multiple > domains on a single IP address, with more than one of them using SSL. > Name-based virtual hosting relies on the HTTP Host: header to identify > which virtual host

Re: [CentOS] OT: programming language for morons (newbie friendly language in Open Source world)

2010-12-13 Thread Alan Hodgson
On December 13, 2010 08:14:24 am Sven Aluoor wrote: > Hi folks > > I have more than 12 years experience with UNIX system administration, > but I am too stupid for programming. My only programming experience is > shell scripting. I tried to learn Java, but don't understand it > because it is too co

Re: [CentOS] apache ssl config

2010-12-08 Thread Alan Hodgson
On December 8, 2010 11:23:55 am Steve Campbell wrote: > I hadn't noticed until just now that the default apache config file > doesn't show a virtual host for https anymore. Does that have any > significance, and do the same old config parameters apply to the new > httpd when I want to set up a secu

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 - using mp3

2010-12-01 Thread Alan Hodgson
On December 1, 2010, "Scot P. Floess" wrote: > I think when CentOS 6 is released, that may not be even close to true :) > I'm running RHEL 6 @ work as my desktop - it has a fairly decent version > of KDE (4.3 specifically) - and this is on a laptop -> its great ;) > Until a year from now. When

Re: [CentOS] Centos and Bridging

2010-11-26 Thread Alan Hodgson
On November 26, 2010 11:25:06 am Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > KVM, itself, was unusable in my testing due to the "bridged network" > mishandling and its complete lack of a concept of failover for network > issues, particularly pair bonding for the server itself. PXE for the > clients was unusable, an

Re: [CentOS] Postfix - message queue filling with Host or name not found - try again

2010-11-16 Thread Alan Hodgson
On November 16, 2010 11:49:42 am Rob Kampen wrote: > Hi list, > I have noted over the last week or so my DNS servers are dumping lots of > messages for bogus domain lookups. Examining the postfix queue with > postqueue -p: I see many > (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for > name=

Re: [CentOS] Question about a hard drive error

2010-11-16 Thread Alan Hodgson
On November 16, 2010 08:31:05 am Benjamin Franz wrote: > On 11/15/2010 10:41 AM, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > > Thanks John, I appreciate it! Both are being replaced after a nearby 55 > > KV power line shorted to ground and blew a manhole cover 50' into the > > air, damaging a lot of equipment over he

Re: [CentOS] looking for cool, post-install things t o do on a centos 5.5 system

2010-09-17 Thread Alan Hodgson
On September 17, 2010 01:14:42 pm Les Mikesell wrote: > Is there any distribution (or even a VM image) that comes with LDAP > working out of the box for local and samba authentication and ready to > replicate to others? I think ClearOS has it for a single install but > the last I looked the repli

Re: [CentOS] Can anyone suggest a decent backup system?

2010-09-16 Thread Alan Hodgson
On September 16, 2010 11:02:25 am Les Mikesell wrote: > > Amanda's dumps are standard tar archives and can be restored without > > Amanda. > > Well, sort-of. You have to know how to skip over the amanda label and > header. And how to find the right set of tapes. Sure, but at least it's document

Re: [CentOS] Can anyone suggest a decent backup system?

2010-09-16 Thread Alan Hodgson
On September 16, 2010 10:49:04 am Les Mikesell wrote: > Agreed there. Backuppc doesn't know much about tapes and nothing about > changers. But for straight long-term archiving you could wrap a script > around BackupPC_tarCreate to save whatever you wanted off to tape. And > you are on your own f

Re: [CentOS] is Intel VT-d "really" necessary?

2010-09-16 Thread Alan Hodgson
On September 16, 2010 10:23:15 am Rudi Ahlers wrote: > But I'm convinced now that XEON's would be better even though they're > far more expensive. And at the same time our older Pentium IV, > Core2Duo & Core2Quad machines work as well as our XEON machines, but > at much cheaper prices - which trans

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS DHCP Server and windows computer/host name ISSUE

2010-08-24 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tuesday, August 24, 2010, "linux-crazy" wrote: > > Is there is any configuration to be tuned on dhcpd.conf or any files or > parameter to be tuned on windows 2003 guests to get the hostname from the > DHCP/DNS . i heard about some option like "*dhcpd opt 12*" on windows > regisrty level will

Re: [CentOS] tools one could to use to troubleshoot for Apache

2010-08-23 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Friday, August 20, 2010, Agnello George wrote: > Have a question , Suppose i had a client tell me that he can access the > web page but it takes long time to view the pages the website is a > static website ( suppose this website does not server dynamic data or > does not connect to a data

Re: [CentOS] apache rewrite

2010-08-17 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tuesday, August 17, 2010, Craig White wrote: > Is there some easy way to rewrite just the base URL to another URL but > leave all other URL's unmolested? > > i.e. > > http://www.example.com = rewrite to another URL > > http://www.example.com/files = deliver from the assigned subdirectory >

Re: [CentOS] how many folks are *seriously* using ACLs?

2010-08-16 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Monday, August 16, 2010, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Alan Hodgson wrote: > > On Sunday, August 15, 2010, "Robert P. J. Day" > > wrote: > > > > Default ACLs make file sharing permissions work _al

Re: [CentOS] how many folks are *seriously* using ACLs?

2010-08-16 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Sunday, August 15, 2010, "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > i'm just curious -- how many people here are using ACLs as a regular > and significant part of their sys admin? > > rday Samba shares (a lot). subversion repositories. Some web directories. Default ACLs make file sharing permissions wor

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade libgcc & gcc packages (is there a clean way)

2010-08-09 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Monday, August 09, 2010, Dan Burkland wrote: > Machine is running 5.3 and somehow both packages got updated to > libgcc-4.1.2-48.el5 when they need to be libgcc-4.1.2-44.el5. The DBAs > here perform the Oracle Grid Control client install however they said it > will not install it if detects an

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade libgcc & gcc packages (is there a clean way)

2010-08-09 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Monday, August 09, 2010, Dan Burkland wrote: > Hello all, > > I have been tasked with "fixing" one of our CentOS boxes by somehow > downgrading the libgcc and gcc packages to a specific version (Required > by the Oracle Grid Control client). Normally I'd just remove and > reinstall the package

Re: [CentOS] Dual personality Server (network pass through)

2010-06-14 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Monday, June 14, 2010, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > I have 3 nics in a NATed gateway file server. Two nics (eth1, eth2) > Is it possible to disable the NATing, nfs, dhcp and just somehow > bridge the external WAN nic to the internal ones such that it's just a > pass through? Basically having the

Re: [CentOS] 12-15 TB RAID storage recommendations

2010-04-13 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tuesday 13 April 2010, Drew Weaver wrote: > Those drives are likely fading out of the array because they aren't meant > to be in arrays in the first place, Adaptec has told us that if you use > consumer drives with their cards you are operating at your own risk. > Every hard drive dies. It's j

Re: [CentOS] mail issue help and need good mail server

2010-02-19 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Friday 19 February 2010, chloe K wrote: > Thank you for your helping > > but why user keeps downloading mails what he downloaded before? > > I check the mail client setting and it works fine > > If it is not server control, any hints about this problem It's possible that the client is having

Re: [CentOS] Server HD failed and I think I am hosed

2010-02-18 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thursday 18 February 2010, "Slack-Moehrle" wrote: > Also, what would have caused this all of the sudden? This box has been > running fine for months. Every hard drive will fail eventually. Some take days. Some take decades. Most fail somewhere in between those extremes. But every single one

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to RAID

2009-12-10 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thursday 10 December 2009, Matt wrote: > I have CentOS 4.x installed on a single 500GB SATA drive. Drive is > about 10 percent used. I would like to migrate to software RAID 5 > without reinstalling the OS. Was thinking 3 500GB drives. Is that > possible or must I reinstall? > In theory yo

Re: [CentOS] Kerio Mail Server - anyone?

2009-12-09 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wednesday 09 December 2009, Alan McKay wrote: > Complete! > [r...@localhost ~]# rpm --install > /home/amckay/kerio-kms-6.7.3-7892.linux.i386.rpm > error: Failed dependencies: > libstdc++.so.5 is needed by kerio-kms-6.7.3-7892.linux.i386 > libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2) is needed by keri

Re: [CentOS] MySQL error 28, can't write temp files - how to debug?

2009-11-05 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thursday 05 November 2009, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > According to google search, errorcode 28 means the HDD is full. But it > isn't: > > > r...@vps:[~]$ df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 84G 18G 62G 23% / > none 640M 0

Re: [CentOS] Receive, process and send email

2009-09-21 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Sunday 20 September 2009, "CSB" wrote: > We wish to do the following: > 1. receive an email with an attachment > 2. process the email body to get some information from it > 3. send an outbound email to an email address based on the information > derived from step 2. The email will include the a

Re: [CentOS] Support for add disk SCSI

2009-09-08 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Luis campo wrote: > Another supplementary question, because CentOS 4.7 only recognizes 273GB > if the disk is 300GB? CentOS recognizes the full size of the disk. Your disconnect is between what the manufacturer sells as 300GB, and the actual size of the disk. --

Re: [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-12 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wednesday 12 August 2009, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > My successor at my previous job has gleefully followed those > > instructions (he seriously needs a clueby4 which is why he bothers to > > actually read HowTos) and on a production box (who wants pop-corn and > > soda? Sorry, the er support co

Re: [CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%-- solved

2009-07-06 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Monday 06 July 2009, "fabian" wrote: > now everything works fine without this file in the /etc/cron.daily > directory so the tmpwatch was the culprit cause the CPU wait state to > almost 99 % for almost 6 hrs > but jus would like to know if this particular script has any signifance > or any per