Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-04 Thread David Brian Chait
> Is it too much to ask that you learn how to quote and maintain > attribution properly? Enough said, I'm dropping off of the Centos lists. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-04 Thread David Brian Chait
"Gimme a break. Like who, you? What a doschbag, as in a bag filled with a solution that is used to clean vaginas. - aurf" Since we as a list are obviously incapable of having an adult conversation without resorting to ignorant / childish attacks, lets drop it already. ___

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-04 Thread David Brian Chait
"Get over yourself. Buy RHEL then Mr. "provide a reliable and scalable infrastructure"." Why would I do that when I have an alternative? It isn't like I actually budgeted for a significant number of RHEL licenses this year, the money has to come from somewhere. __

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-04 Thread David Brian Chait
"SL didn't pass the muster in our env in terms of a drop in replacement for Centos. On the other hand, we have simply dropped in Centos in place of RHEL w/ o issue. Our env is a rather complex CGI/VFX based pipeline that is not trivial to design or support. So if you have 12-24 months, I'd

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-04 Thread David Brian Chait
> OK guys. Why don't you fork the CentOS project and build your own??? Because I value my time, and there is no way that I can or will devote my life to reinventing the proverbial wheel. The more likely outcome is a Scientific Linux migration for my production environment over the next 12-24 mon

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-04 Thread David Brian Chait
> If Karanbir says 3 weeks it takes 3 months. (as well as with CentOS 5.6) Well that and we have been a few days away from 5.6 for well over a few months now... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-04 Thread David Brian Chait
All, As much as I hate to ask, how is this project coming along? We are approaching the 4 month post-release point... -David ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Corporate support for CentOS

2011-03-28 Thread David Brian Chait
"$200/month" = $200/year ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Corporate support for CentOS

2011-03-28 Thread David Brian Chait
>Anyone know someone who can front at least 2 years working capital to get >started and productive? >From a pure business standpoint, it would be near impossible to pull off. No >one is going to pony up $2,000,000 to start CentOS up as a for-profit company. >Aside from the small point that you w

Re: [CentOS] cobbler installation of CentOS-5.5

2011-03-28 Thread David Brian Chait
> Cobbler is rather complex to setup. If you want to pxeboot, you can still do > this much faster by setting up a tftp server, a dhcp server and exporting the > install tree via NFS or HTTP. I simply loop mount the ISO image and export > the mounted DVD via NFS. I use something similar to >

Re: [CentOS] cobbler installation of CentOS-5.5

2011-03-28 Thread David Brian Chait
Sometimes the path of least resistance is best, spend $40 on a USB DVD and call it a day. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization platform choice

2011-03-27 Thread David Brian Chait
> I understand that vmware has much stronger marketing machine, however that > does not mean that their technology is somehow better. Their offer is a > reasonable choice for many scenarios in IT, mass web hosting is > unfortunately not one of them. As any competent admin will tell you, use > the

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization platform choice

2011-03-27 Thread David Brian Chait
> It's interesting that nobody so far mentioned openVZ or its commercial > version, Virtuozzo. It's different than all major virtualization players > (it's OS level virtualization, not hw level), but that makes it the only > viable option for things like mass web hosting solutions. > Try it out an

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization platform choice

2011-03-27 Thread David Brian Chait
> Biggest problem in free esxi is that it lacks backup vcb api, so full > image backups are almost impossible under free esxi host .. Not true at all, I use the ghettovcb script in the console and it works fine. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.or

Re: [CentOS] How does Linux Repair actually work

2011-03-24 Thread David Brian Chait
> Sacrilege! > This will make sense to only all IT (not income tax, stupid) > professionals : use Centos 5 or wait for centos 6 . Exactly right, most orgs are not clamoring for 6 right now. Very few people would put their environments at risk just to play with the newest toy on the block. Cent

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication

2011-03-11 Thread David Brian Chait
-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of David Brian Chait Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 1:15 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication > I looked in AD configuration and see that my server does not have appropriate > ServicePrincipalName for HTTP (onl

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication

2011-03-11 Thread David Brian Chait
> I looked in AD configuration and see that my server does not have appropriate > ServicePrincipalName for HTTP (only host). Of course it doesn't, you gathered that ticket by joining the domain with Samba, but are not using samba auth with apache... ___

Re: [CentOS] sata drives and controlers

2011-03-09 Thread David Brian Chait
> thats some old stuff. :-/ Monumental understatementwhy again do you want to put it back into production Michel? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread David Brian Chait
> Do you have any proof of this? OR are you making assumptions of past > experiences? We have many Windows server on the net, directly with > very few hassles. I have never had a *NIX server under my charge hacked, I have had several Windows machines (those directly connected to the internet) ha

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread David Brian Chait
On 03/08/11 7:01 AM, compdoc wrote: > > Connecting any windows based computer directly to the internet is a really > really bad idea... > go away. it isn't 1998 anymore. That may be, but the advice is still valid, windows is infinitely more vulnerable than *NIX on a direct/open connection. Most

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-06 Thread David Brian Chait
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > however for my purpose open and free HAProxy remains best choice!! > +1 for HAProxy; excellent piece of software. It really depends on your needs, if you are building a production ops environment then the last thing that you would want woul

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread David Brian Chait
> Can anyone help me hash out how best to load balance a website that is > getting considerable traffic? In the past I only have experience with > BigIP where you have a load balancing device that keeps track and send > traffic to the best server possible at the time. This was a proprietary > sy

Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

2011-02-25 Thread David Brian Chait
> VMware Workstation has no issues with the glibc update; VMware is just not > properly supporting VMware Server, has nothing to do with Red Hat (Ubuntu is > also listed as a supported OS, yet when you do the glibc update that matches > > > the one that causes the issues on RHEL, the same thing

Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

2011-02-24 Thread David Brian Chait
> Thanks, I did not know that. I could've swarn I had tested it on some > old IBM x306. Will have to take a look into that. > I still like that automation that I get with CentOS, puppet and VirtualBox. > Ben I think you need to download the VI3 rather than 4.1 to use 32 bit support, but it d

Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

2011-02-24 Thread David Brian Chait
On 2/24/11 8:56 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 03:44:32PM +1300, Machin, Greg wrote: > > > > >> Rather use ESXi 4.1 and get >> up and running quickly. If your hardware is not on the supported list >> there are other lists of tested hardware where people have it running on >> "

Re: [CentOS] RECALL: http://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-bind-vulnerability-advisory-issued

2011-02-23 Thread David Brian Chait
>From Larry's web site: http://www.texoma.net/it/contact_us.html >ab...@texoma.net to report violations of netiquette To quote Rodney King.."Can't we all just get along?" ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [CentOS] Air Conditioning - ON!

2011-02-22 Thread David Brian Chait
> With 8 million unique machines running Centos and perhaps millions > people more depending on them comes great responsability. > I hope the Centos crew know what they're doing. Obviously they do, or they would not have come this far. ___ CentOS mailin

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-18 Thread David Brian Chait
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R. Dennison Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 12:43 PM To: Always Learning Cc: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6? On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 08:19:16PM +,

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-13 Thread David Brian Chait
By doubling the hardware, you still do not overcome the potential corruption that could occur with non-ecc memory. If this is truly a mission critical application then it really does not serve much of a purpose to short change yourself with substandard hardware. -Original Message- From:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.8

2011-02-03 Thread David Brian Chait
Jerry, The Centos install first asks for an administrative password and then as a part of the final configuration script, asks you to create a non-priv account. You do have a root acct, and you did declare a password. If you forgot what you might have used then boot into single u

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

2011-02-02 Thread David Brian Chait
It takes fewer resources to back-port for and support a single suite of software over the lifespan of a major revision than would be needed to fix issues introduced by the major evolution of a large number of packages over the course of a 5-7 year product cycle. -Original Message- From: