Re: [CentOS] Ruby on Cent OS 8

2021-11-15 Thread Karl Vogel
would only fit on a double-sided DVD. (Yeah, I know all the cool kids use flash drives -- I'm old.) G> But, maybe, it is an irrational fear... An "irrational fear" of Oracle the company is a contradiction in terms. -- Karl Vogel / vogelke AT pobox.com / I don't speak f

Re: [CentOS] Is Oracle a real alternative to Centos?

2020-12-09 Thread Karl Vogel
OT* a recommendation for Oracle in general -- be ready for them to change the rules at any time. Finally, I've been on this list for many years -- Johnny H. is the most responsive and least arrogant person I've ever seen, so please don't pee in his Wheaties. -- Karl Vogel / vogelke AT

Re: [CentOS] GnuPG 2.0.16?

2018-04-02 Thread Karl Vogel
=$dest --mandir=$dest/man [change config.h to hold "#undef HAVE_INOTIFY_INIT" unless you have a very recent release of inotify sources] make && make check && make install && make clean It's a litt

Re: [CentOS] C6, lightweight window managers - opinions?

2017-11-08 Thread Karl Vogel
s Can't get much lighter than that. -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company Next time it could be me on the scaffolding. --written on blackboard by Bart Simpson

Re: [CentOS] postfix mail server

2012-09-17 Thread Karl Vogel
Maildirs. Contrast this with an RDB, where you absolutely need consistent and quiet files to do a successful backup. If you want DB replication, then you need: * an SMTP server, plus * an RDB on the mailserver, plus * a replica of the DB on another server. Which setup is

Re: [CentOS] postfix mail server

2012-09-17 Thread Karl Vogel
u want a list of good reasons to NOT use a database for email, have a look at http://www.memoryhole.net/~kyle/databaseemail.html -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball would

Re: [CentOS] ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

2012-09-14 Thread Karl Vogel
et access to the server, can you disable TCP checksum offloading? root# ethtool -K eth0 tx off rx off root# ethtool -t eth0 offline # adapter self-test -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company A sum of accountants --collective nouns, J

Re: [CentOS] su path hard coded?

2012-07-24 Thread Karl Vogel
e whether you want to use syslog for access logging, etc. Why not change the production version to use (say) /etc/sysconfig/su for the default PATH? This way any admin can tweak su behavior to suit themselves without messing with the code, especially critical code like this.

Re: [CentOS] Universal server hardware platform - which to choose?

2012-06-26 Thread Karl Vogel
andle drives > 1Tb 18 months after said drives had hit the market. I'd also second the "don't buy Sun/Oracle" recommendation. Oracle isn't interested in anything but Fortune 50 business, and it shows. -- Karl Vogel I don't speak fo

Re: [CentOS] rhel/centos alternative to logwatch?

2012-04-13 Thread Karl Vogel
hcst.net/~vogelke/src/logfiles/ has some examples. -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.--item for a lull in conversation ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Need to split long lines in mail archives

2012-04-09 Thread Karl Vogel
as J> one long line. A Perl module called "Text::Format" is perfect for this. Could you post (or send) a link to a Mailman-generated HTML archive that has the problem you describe? Then I can show a before-and-after along with a script that'll at least give you a start

Re: [CentOS] your advice on backup procedure

2012-03-25 Thread Karl Vogel
MWare, & Windows systems using freely-available utilities. * How to automate DB2, Exchange, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL-Server, and Sybase backups without using a commercial backup product. -- Karl Vogel I don&

Re: [CentOS] your advice on backup procedure

2012-03-23 Thread Karl Vogel
st to each machine, B> putting it on the host's backup drives. That's what I use at work, but we're closer to the "networked fileservers with remote shares" setup. I use the find/pax/touch setup above to handle hourly backups for 800-1000 users, and they&#x