Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-08 Thread Steve Lindemann
On 5/8/2015 12:47 PM, Warren Young wrote: On May 8, 2015, at 12:02 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 5/8/2015 10:40 AM, Warren Young wrote: - Adobe’s killed off dozens of products over the years. FrameMaker ... Frame isn't dead When I think of FrameMaker, I think of the program that started ou

Re: [CentOS] Real sh? Or other efficient shell for non-interactive scripts

2015-04-24 Thread Steve Lindemann
On 4/24/2015 10:47 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 04/24/2015 03:57 AM, Pete Geenhuizen wrote: if you leave it out the script will run in whatever environment it currently is in. I'm reasonably certain that a script with no shebang will run with /bin/sh. I interpret your statement to mean that i

Re: [CentOS] Easy way to strip down CentOS?

2015-02-25 Thread Steve Lindemann
On 2/25/2015 12:04 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote: Le 25/02/2015 19:36, John R Pierce a écrit : I install from the 'minimum' ISO, and get that off the bat, then just install the packages I need with yum I do the same, but my question is: how to do that the other way around? Let's say you start from th

Re: [CentOS] Installing old version of firefox

2014-11-14 Thread Steve Lindemann
On 11/14/2014 11:02 AM, Larry Martell wrote: I need to install firefox version 24.3.0 on centos version 6.5. Anyone know how I can do that? I tried downloading that version directly and it fails with: XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/local/lib64/firefox/libxul.so: libXrender.so.1: cannot open s

Re: [CentOS] firefox: annoyance

2014-09-25 Thread Steve Lindemann
On 9/25/2014 9:07 AM, Steve Lindemann wrote: On 9/25/2014 8:42 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Steve Lindemann wrote: On 9/25/2014 8:13 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Valeri Galtsev wrote: On Thu, September 25, 2014 8:59 am, John Doe wrote: From: Johan Vermeulen op 25-09-14 13:46, mark schreef

Re: [CentOS] firefox: annoyance

2014-09-25 Thread Steve Lindemann
On 9/25/2014 8:42 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Steve Lindemann wrote: On 9/25/2014 8:13 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Valeri Galtsev wrote: On Thu, September 25, 2014 8:59 am, John Doe wrote: From: Johan Vermeulen op 25-09-14 13:46, mark schreef: Yup, forgot that: no tool bar at all, no

Re: [CentOS] firefox: annoyance

2014-09-25 Thread Steve Lindemann
On 9/25/2014 8:13 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Valeri Galtsev wrote: On Thu, September 25, 2014 8:59 am, John Doe wrote: From: Johan Vermeulen op 25-09-14 13:46, mark schreef: Yup, forgot that: no tool bar at all, no menus Then maybe you are stuck in full-screen mode? Press f11 to exi

Re: [CentOS] Cemtos 7 : Systemd alternatives ?

2014-07-08 Thread Steve Lindemann
On 7/8/2014 8:49 AM, Russell Miller wrote: > For the record, I'm not uncomfortable with change. I'm uncomfortable with > stupid, > poorly thought out, monolithic change that ignores half a century of the UNIX > philosophy. > And creating a daemon that tries to handle everything but the kitchen s

Re: [CentOS] Sorry

2014-05-19 Thread Steve Lindemann
On 5/19/2014 9:02 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > I'ts not really a bad thing in the context of 1<->1 messages and > business communications where you are interested enough to not need > the reply put in context for you but might want the audit-trail of the > whole previous conversation for reference. >

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

2014-05-16 Thread Steve Lindemann
On 5/16/2014 8:58 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm building a raid box to use for backups, connectivity will be either > USB3 or esata. > > Looking for suggestions on backup software I can use. > >>>snip<<< There are a number of good ready made choices (backuppc seems to be the most sugges

Re: [CentOS] su command

2014-05-08 Thread Steve Lindemann
On 5/8/2014 7:57 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > I am running pulseaudio on centOS 6.5 > audio works fine as the user. > running the command > aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav > works fine. > > when I login as root and run the command > su user -c "aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

Re: [CentOS] IP aliases Centos 6.x

2014-03-03 Thread Steve Lindemann
On 3/3/2014 4:34 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am 04.03.2014 00:24, schrieb Les Mikesell: >> What's the right way to assign an IP alias to an ethernet interface >> that you want to bring up and down manually, not on boot? >> >> I tried the old way of making an ifcfg-eth3:0 file and it does work >>

Re: [CentOS] - monitoring software

2013-10-18 Thread Steve Lindemann
sy I would highly recommend Nagios. It's easy to use once set up, but a bit of command line work is required to configure (which I consider easy but understand not everyone does). It will certainly do all the other things you want and then some. Just my opinion... -- Steve Lindemann, M

Re: [CentOS] web mail and Squirrelmail

2012-12-19 Thread Steve Lindemann
view) so we passed on that too. -- Steve Lindemann, MSIS __ Network Administrator //\\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Marmot Library Network \\// against HTML/RTF email, +1.970.242.3331 x116 //\\ vCards & M$ attachments http:

Re: [CentOS] DNS lookup delay with centos & postfix

2012-07-25 Thread Steve Lindemann
On 7/25/2012 3:58 PM, Tom Brown wrote: >> dig uses resolv.conf and no timeouts are configured there. I don't know >> there the OS would have a default configured or what it is. Another >> reply indicated there would be a 5 second delay. That seems a bit high >> to me. >> >> I used dig from the e

Re: [CentOS] DNS lookup delay with centos & postfix

2012-07-25 Thread Steve Lindemann
On 7/25/2012 3:55 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 07/25/12 1:57 PM, Steve Lindemann wrote: >> Anyone have any ideas for why nagios would have trouble testing smtp on >> the email server when the primary dns goes offline? I'm not even sure >> where to look or who else w

Re: [CentOS] DNS lookup delay with centos & postfix

2012-07-25 Thread Steve Lindemann
On 7/25/2012 3:21 PM, Tom Brown wrote: > Does dig use libresolv or read directly from resolv.conf? Also do you have a > timeout configured in resolv.conf or are you relying on the os default? dig uses resolv.conf and no timeouts are configured there. I don't know there the OS would have a defau

[CentOS] DNS lookup delay with centos & postfix

2012-07-25 Thread Steve Lindemann
I'm a bit baffled by this and I'm looking for ideas... background: two DNS servers (ns1 & ns2)(64bit CentOS 5.8) one email server (64bit CentOS 5.8 & postfix 2.3.3) one nagios server (64bit CentOS 5.8 & nagios 3.3.1) situation: - all servers configured to use both DNS servers for lookups - ns1 se

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options

2012-03-12 Thread Steve Lindemann
On 3/11/2012 6:12 PM, Scott Walker wrote: > What do you guys recommend for backing up a small CentOS server in a > business environment. It will have (3) 300gb drives in a raid 5 array but I > don't anticipate more than about 25gb of data that needs to be backed up > each night. > I want a lot of

Re: [CentOS] Air Conditioning - ON!

2011-02-22 Thread Steve Lindemann
Corey A Johnson wrote: > > John Hinton wrote: >> All, >> >> (and please do not turn this into the next long thread) >> >> > > > I am not a man of many words.. and i am usually very quiet on this > list. But would just like to say that i appreciate all the CentOS team > members immensely.

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

2010-12-14 Thread Steve Lindemann
like Pascal and it's not bad as a general purpose language. For practical work I lean towards PERL and PHP, but then I do sys admin for work and websites for fun. Define your task then - Use the tool that fits the task... not the other way around! -- Steve Lindemann,

Re: [CentOS] PHP version [SOLVED]

2010-06-28 Thread Steve Lindemann
Marcelo Roccasalva wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 19:16, Steve Lindemann wrote: >> [...] >> ...or directions for upgrading PHP from 5.1 to 5.2 on 64-bit (I found >> directions for 32-bit)? > > open /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Testing.repo in

[CentOS] PHP version

2010-06-25 Thread Steve Lindemann
Does anyone know when PHP will upgrade to version 5.2.0 or better on 64-bit CentOS 5.5? ...or know where I should look to find out for myself? ...or directions for upgrading PHP from 5.1 to 5.2 on 64-bit (I found directions for 32-bit)? Thanks. -- Steve ___

Re: [CentOS] NTP

2009-12-17 Thread Steve Lindemann
learning about ntp, here are a few other references that may prove useful... http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ (original developer, now retired) http://www.ntp.org/ http://asg.andrew.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc1305.html http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/WebHome ...I have a few more time related links but

Re: [CentOS] Way to go, CentOS team. Here's a hearty "thank you"!

2009-10-22 Thread Steve Lindemann
Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> To the CentOS developers, beta testers, and all who were involved in >> a small or major way in the release of CentOS 5.4...thank you. >> Ignoring the peer pressure, even though it was out a little later >

Re: [CentOS] need trouble ticket system

2009-03-30 Thread Steve Lindemann
ultiple checks required to fully close a ticket (bug) are a bit much for a typical helpdesk. They make perfect sense when dealing with software bugs... 8^) We've been looking at replacing it with something less complex but haven't found anything yet that makes it worth the troubl

Re: [CentOS] cpu load monitoring

2009-01-23 Thread Steve Lindemann
ons[loadavg]: growright,gauge,absolute,nopercent YLegend[loadavg]: Load Average ShortLegend[loadavg]: unit Legend1[loadavg]: Load Average (1min) Legend2[loadavg]: n/a Legend3[loadavg]: Maximal 5 Minute Load Average Legend4[loadavg]: n/a LegendI[loadavg]:  Value: LegendO[loadavg]:  n/a: ~~~