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CentOS 3.4 - i386 - errata - initscripts
by Lance Davis 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

There is an update to initscripts for CentOS 3.4. The version packaged in the 3.4 isos missed the patch to remove the 10 second delay on boot with an 'unsupported configuration' . This update reimplements the patch. Files :- updates/i386/RPMS/initscripts-7.31.18.EL-1.centos.1.i386.rpm updates/i386/SRPMS/initscripts-7.31.18.EL-1.centos.1.src.rpm To update 'yum update initscripts' Lance

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RE: [Centos] NNTP versus web forums
by Mark A. Lewis 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

No, I mean the vast majority of employers block 119 and do not offer news service. I realize you do not need a local server, but you have to be able to connect to pull it from somewhere... -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)caosity.org [mailto:centos-bounces@caosity.org] On Behalf Of Jim Zajkowski Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 4:06 PM To: CentOS discussion and information list Subject: Re: [Centos] NNTP versus web forums On Jan 8, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Mark A. Lewis wrote: > The other big thing to remember is that many of us do not have NNTP > feeds at work, where e-mail and the web are easy to get to. You don't need a local nntp server to read news, any nntp client can connect to any other nntp server, assuming that that server lets you connect. I'm not in favor of creating a CentOS topic under the usenet comp.sys hierarchy, I'm talking about running a private nntp server. For example, Novell runs their forums over nntp, and people configure their clients to connect to news.novell.com. When I was a student we used a local nntp server for class forums and project help. --Jim -- Jim Zajkowski OpenPGP 0x21135C3 http://www.jimz.net/pgp.asc System Administrator 8A9E 1DDF 944D 83C3 AEAB 8F74 8697 A823 2113 5C53 UM Life Sciences Institute _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)caosity.org http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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CentOS and SuperMicro P8SCi motherboard
by Avtar Gill 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

There was recently a thread on this mailing list regarding SuperMicro hardware and CentOS. Here is one of the posts: http://lists.caosity.org/pipermail/centos/2005-January/001503.html My question is about the P8SCi motherboard, a fairly new SuperMicro model. The vendor's specifications page mentions Linux but I would rather hear from end users and their experiences. Here is a URL: http://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/P4/E7221/P8SCi.cfm I've found one post on a Debian mailing list which mentioned it but that person is using a 2.6 kernel: http://tinyurl.com/5jlry Is anyone here using CentOS (or any RHEL clone OS) on a box that contains one of these boards? Any issues that you have come across? Thanks, Avtar

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Where is ethereal?
by Joe Polk 09 Jan '05

09 Jan '05

YUM says I already have ethereal installed, but I have no /usr/sbin/ethereal. I have 3 directories about but no executable. -- <<JAV>>

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RE: [Centos] NNTP versus web forums
by Mark A. Lewis 09 Jan '05

09 Jan '05

Even if there isn't, it wouldn't be hard to 'inject' the mail list posts into the database for the forums, just use the subject as the topic, give it it's own subforum. Going the other way could be a bit harder. -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)caosity.org [mailto:centos-bounces@caosity.org] On Behalf Of Avtar Gill Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 8:23 PM To: CentOS discussion and information list Subject: Re: [Centos] NNTP versus web forums On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 15:53:37 -0500, Jim Zajkowski <jim(a)jimz.net> wrote: > I see that a number of questions are being answered on the new web > forum that is now part of the centos site. And the mailing lists So > now there are two places to search, both the forum and the mailing > list archives. > > This is just doubles the work required to follow along or find a > solution. That's funny because the thought about having "two places to search" occurred to me a couple of days ago when I read the following two posts: http://lists.caosity.org/pipermail/centos/2005-January/001496.html http://lists.caosity.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2005-January/000574.html I am new to Centos so correct me if I'm wrong but I'm assuming that developers and end users were initially corresponding with each other via mailing lists. In my opinion, redirecting some future discussions to the web forums while leaving others on the mailing lists seems counter productive. I'm not familiar with the CMS software that is being used at centos.org but is there any mailing list <-> web forum software available for it? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)caosity.org http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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NNTP versus web forums
by Jim Zajkowski 09 Jan '05

09 Jan '05

I see that a number of questions are being answered on the new web forum that is now part of the centos site. And the mailing lists So now there are two places to search, both the forum and the mailing list archives. This is just doubles the work required to follow along or find a solution. I know NNTP isn't sexy, it doesn't allow graphics in posts, it doesn't have person ratings or cute smileys, and it requires a modicum of competence to use, but it DOES do all of these: . Allows off-line reading and replying, with an appropriate reader. . Searching. . Reliable way of showing you which threads have new posts. -> I have not yet found a single web forum that did this well. . Orders of magnitude faster. . Easy to archive. . Small footprint, on-disk and over-network. . Synchronisation to multiple servers, reduced network use. . Bidirectional synchronisation to a mailing list. . Supports authenticated posting, moderation, etc. --Jim -- Jim Zajkowski OpenPGP 0x21135C3 http://www.jimz.net/pgp.asc System Administrator 8A9E 1DDF 944D 83C3 AEAB 8F74 8697 A823 2113 5C53 UM Life Sciences Institute

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New 3ware 9500 Boot Disk Images for CentOS
by Seth Bardash 09 Jan '05

09 Jan '05

We have just posted new 3ware 9500 install boot driver disks based on the new 3ware 9.1.5.2 drivers. This install disk will ONLY work with Athlon and Opteron based systems running 32 bit CentOS 3.3 These images also contain built-in firmware upgrades for the 3ware 9500 SATA Raid controllers and provide increased RAID 5 performance. Also added to the download page is a version of 3DM2 disk management software for the 9500 series with a modified install script to allow automatic startup at boot time. This 3DM2 download is specific to CentOS but is architecture independent and should work with all installs. Thanks for the bandwidth. Seth Bardash Integrated Solutions and Systems 1510 North Gate Road Colorado Springs, CO 80921 719-495-5866 719-495-5870 Fax 719-337-4779 Cell http://www.integratedsolutions.org Failure can not cope with perseverance! -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 1/6/2005

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RE: [Centos] NNTP versus web forums
by Mark A. Lewis 08 Jan '05

08 Jan '05

The other big thing to remember is that many of us do not have NNTP feeds at work, where e-mail and the web are easy to get to. -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)caosity.org [mailto:centos-bounces@caosity.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 3:05 PM To: CentOS Users Subject: Re: [Centos] NNTP versus web forums On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 15:53 -0500, Jim Zajkowski wrote: > I see that a number of questions are being answered on the new web > forum that is now part of the centos site. And the mailing lists So > now there are two places to search, both the forum and the mailing > list archives. > True ... but some users like forums, and others like mailing lists. Each has there advantages and disadvantages. > This is just doubles the work required to follow along or find a > solution. > > I know NNTP isn't sexy, it doesn't allow graphics in posts, it doesn't > have person ratings or cute smileys, and it requires a modicum of > competence to use, but it DOES do all of these: > > . Allows off-line reading and replying, with an appropriate reader. > . Searching. > . Reliable way of showing you which threads have new posts. > -> I have not yet found a single web forum that did this well. check the envelope at the left after you login ... if the color is bright it's new to you ... if it is lightened out, it is not new to you. > . Orders of magnitude faster. > . Easy to archive. > . Small footprint, on-disk and over-network. > . Synchronisation to multiple servers, reduced network use. > . Bidirectional synchronisation to a mailing list. > . Supports authenticated posting, moderation, etc. > > --Jim I like forums ... and I personally think that forums are easier to search. I also think that things like BOLD letters and links like: [url=xxxxx]Text[/url] Where xxxxx is a 200 character string, are much more convenient in a forum. BUT ... I realize that there is no right answer, much like the vi / emacs argument, the GNOME / KDE argument, and the evolution / mutt argument. However, I think offering both is what a community based distro, with users in mind should do. I could be wrong though ... my wife reminds me of that quite often :) -- Johnny Hughes <http://www.HughesJR.com/> _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)caosity.org http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Need a proper configuration of smartd monitoring.
by Alexander Georgiev 08 Jan '05

08 Jan '05

Hi, I have a software mirror with 2 IDE disks - hda and hdc. I would like to be able to monitor their health using smartd, and I am running /etc/init.d/smartd as a service. I placed the folloing in the /etc/smartd.conf /dev/hda -H -m root /dev/hdc -H -m root I case of a problem I want to be notified by mail, and a message to be logged to the system log. Just want to know if this confugiration is adequate for proper monitoring with smartd, or I should add some other options in the conf file? Kind regards. A. Georgiev.

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samba-3.0.9-1.3E.2
by Tom Seeley 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

I wouldn't normally hurry you guys about a package release, (because you're doing an excellent job), but any eta on the above? samba-3.0.9-1.3E.1 is in the current repos and that install seriously fubar'd my ADS + winbind setup. samba-3.0.9-1.3E.2 (which requires krb5-libs-1.2.7-31) fixes the problem. NB, samba-3.0.7-1.3E.1 (the old version) was fine for me, its only this intermediate version that's hosed. Thanks for you on going efforts, -- Tom Seeley

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