Re: [CentOS] Problem with running Centos 5.2 on Dell Optiplex 330

2008-09-08 Thread NiftyClusters Mitch
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NiftyClusters Mitch a écrit : >> >> The quick and handy way to do this is to pick up an inexpensive USB >> ethernet link or other ether net card. After a yum update to a new >> kernel you

Re: [CentOS] USB drive fails at sector 0xFFFFFFF

2008-09-08 Thread NiftyClusters Mitch
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm backing up to a NTFS partition on an external USB drive with dump. I'm > seeing failures in /var/log/messages reading sector 0xFFF that cause the > verify pass to fail. Are there any known problems in the USB driver

Re: [CentOS] Problem with running Centos 5.2 on Dell Optiplex 330

2008-09-07 Thread NiftyClusters Mitch
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 7:29 AM, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pete Kay wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am havind deep trouble with a bunch of our newly arrived Optiplex >> 330 as it can't run Centos 5.2 property. >> .. >> >> Does anyone know how I can fix this problem? > > It's quite possible the net

Re: [CentOS] check mal server speed n performance

2008-09-07 Thread NiftyClusters Mitch
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 9:33 AM, fabian dacunha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I have Centos 5.1 and sendmail mail server running for over a year and > been workin fine > > i also use mailscanner + clamav > > now some remote users have been complaing that the mail sometimes time out > >

Re: [CentOS] DJB's daemontools package

2008-09-06 Thread NiftyClusters Mitch
Sorry this is slightly off topic. On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 6:55 AM, Jeff Kinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 05:51:15AM -0700, Al Sparks wrote: >> Oh and the qmail server? My employer went Exchange. And slowly >> but surely, the IT there is becoming more Microsoft with Linux

Re: [CentOS] Yum corrupting RPMs

2008-08-25 Thread NiftyClusters Mitch
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Tom Lanyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > Trying to upgrade someone's workstation here to 5.2 (was installed from a > 5.0 DVD I think). > > The RPMs on our internal mirror are in-tact and pass a 'rpm --checksig' > test, yet when I run a 'yum upgrade' a la

Re: [CentOS] Problem copying files to flash drive

2008-08-18 Thread NiftyClusters Mitch
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:41 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had an interesting experience this weekend backing up some flash > drives to another flash drive on my CentOS 5.2 home desktop. > > My son had two 256MB flash drives and one 1GB flash drive that he > wanted backed up onto his newe

Re: [CentOS] Port Closing Question..

2008-08-01 Thread NiftyClusters Mitch
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Ryan Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a software avail or a process that will monitor two ports and if > there is no traffic close them so the program that is using them can reuse > them? I talked to the vendor and they told me I needed to do this on t

Re: [CentOS] File system goes read-only once in a while

2008-08-01 Thread NiftyClusters Mitch
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:43 PM, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 16:13 -0400, Toby Bluhm wrote: >> Mufit Eribol wrote: >> > >. . that you would correctly try to > fsck the *device*. > First backup data... It is possible to run "fsck" with a media test fl

Re: [CentOS] RHEL vs. CentOS

2008-07-02 Thread NiftyClusters Mitch
Exactly, RedHat service (not free) uses the redhat update network and tools like "up2date" to deliver updated RPM packages to their customer. They do not distribute yum by default and they do not have a yum repository configuration that works. Under the covers both RHEL and CentOS use RPMs so

Re: [CentOS] Ethernet poor performance

2008-07-02 Thread NiftyClusters Mitch
Good list: Also add multiple runs of "traceroute" and also try ping, ping -f , ping -A and ping -R. See also ping6 If routes are dynamic we have one answer to the problem, I would expect traceroute to have 'one' answer on a simple net. If packets are falling on the floor then we need to know why.