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Hi, I have two very similar AMD based work stations running fully current CentOS x86_64. Both have 4Gb of RAM, both have [rkampen at media ~]$ sudo rpm -qa |grep flash flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.i386 [rkampen at media ~]$ sudo rpm -qa |grep fire firefox-3.0.6-1.el5.centos.i386 One machine (home) works fine on my web page www.ndgonline.net/ndg/ the other (work) seg faults - I guess it is

Hi all, prior to 5.4 upgrade, my two DNS servers would only get 'connection refused resolving .....' on rare infrequent occasions (once or twice a month) after upgrade to 5.4 I get 500+ per day. Google has suggestions for |logging category lame-servers null; ; ; |however this strikes me as severe overkill as it will mask genuine problems. Anyone else noticed this? Suggestions as to

Hi, I just upgraded to the newest kernel and Flash. Hulu now "grays out" when I try to go to full screen. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the proprietary video drivers (no difference either way), so I'm guessing it has something to do with either the new Flash or the new kernel. Anyone else experiencing this problem? Thanks for any pointers. -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.5

Hi, I am running a VOIP application on Centos 5.3. It is a 16 core box with 12 G of mem and all what it does is passing packets. What happens is that at around 2K channels running g711 ( 64k) codec, all eth0 is used up and no more traffic can go through. I have checked google and it talked about interrupt scheduler. does anyone know how to configure the kernel to allow it to use all CPSs for

I have changed /etc/sysconfig/nfs to specify port numbers for NFS daemons. Somehow statd is still starting up at random port number. Other damons are starting at properly at specified port numbers Any clues on what might be wrong? Any other location/setting that takes precedence over sysconfig/nfs ? It's CentOS 5.5 64bit with nfs-utils 1.0.9-44.el5. -- Thanks, CS

Am running Centos5.2 64Bit, want to run windows application on it [x at linux10 ~]$ uname -a Linux 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5 #1 SMP Wed Sep 24 19:32:05 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [x at linux10 ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.2 (Final) Which Wine version should i install? Should i go for rpm or tarball package? Which packages should be installed beside Wine? Thanks -- THE

Hi All, If I put a 1TB HD in my server (because they are on sale this week), can I later Mirror to a second 1TB drive without destroying the data on the first? On Windows and OS X, I know I can't do this... Thoughts? -ML

By default, a kickstart installation will spread the configured partitions over all disks that are found, and the only way around that is to use --ondisk or ignoredisk. But I was wondering how reliable this method is. E.g. if there are four SATA ports on the system board, can I blindly assume that port one will always correspond to sda, port two to sdb, and so on? Can I assume that a second

I'm curious why CentOS contradicts its own (or, actually RH's) netfilter default policy. On http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/IPTables , at the end of section 1, it's stated that (generally) the default policy for INPUT is to DROP. So, why is it set to ACCEPT? Btw, Fedora is also this way.

Hi, I'm looking for a repository of PHP-5.3 compatible with the requirements of Zend http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/requirements.html requirements.extensions, repos are being upgraded, that repo is exist or any way is a compilation of php from source? For at ll

When updating a centos 5.x box with the horde package, should the extras or epel version win? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com

Greetings: i have an x86_64 Centos5.3 box and i'm trying to run auditd. it fails on startup and this is the O/P at the end: config_manager init complete Error setting audit daemon pid (Connection refused) type=DAEMON_ABORT msg=audit(1260554376.697:5674): auditd error halt, auid=4294967295 pid=32702 res=failed Unable to set audit pid, exiting The audit daemon is exiting. Error setting

Hi List, I am running a 64 bit 5.3 kernel on an intel mb and all has been well. Today I thought it would be okay to reboot so that the latest kernel was running - i.e move from 128.2.1 to 128.4.1 release. The system passes POST fine, grub passes control to the 128.4.1 kernel and the boot process is under way. after some 30 secs the system starts beeping - continuously. After I hooked up a

Hello, we are using firefox-3.0.15 from the CentOS-Repository and the adobereader plugin from the adobe-repository. We have a curious problem with adobereader-plugin in firefox. When a pdf document is displayed via the plugin, i.e. within a tab in firefox, all input fields are disabled. I cannot enter a search string or fill in fields. The cursor and page up/down keys are also disabled. But when

Good afternoon folks. Earlier today, I started upgrading a few of our servers to 5.4 based on input from the list. So far, all has gone well. I have about 6 servers (not very many, but still) that need to be upgraded. Instead of taking precious bits from the mirrors for each upgrade, I was curious if I could rsync the 5.4 directory from a local mirror, and configure yum to use that repo, if

Hi all, everytime I play with perl I end up falling on my face. Yesterday, new perl modules available from rf (my chosen repo for perl, perl is excluded from my CentOS-Base), however it did not like an already installed perl-File-Temp, so not recalling it was necessary for my mail system I removed it and allowed the updates. Then when I discovered my mail system no longer working (amavisd

Starting with a fresh load and after I finish hardening the load following the Center for Internet Security (CIS) guidance, I'm wondering whether AIDE or OSSEC would be a better intrusion detection system. I installed AIDE and did a quick test of AIDE and after initializing the db and applying the recent cups update, I found that 1700+ files had changed. Those are a lot of changes to wade

Updated yesterday to the latest firefox from CentOS, and now RPMforge flash-plugin will only play a few seconds of video (such as CNN, iReport, etc.) at a time before becoming stuck; dragging the slider back a little allows it to play a bit further, but then it stops again. YouTube plays the video without sticking, but has no sound. glibc issues on el4 prevent upgrading to the newer flash-plugin

Hello fellow sysadmins! I've assembled a whitebox system with a SuperMicro motherboard, case, 8GB of memory and a single quad core Xeon processor. I have two 9650SE-8LPML cards (8 ports each) in each server with 12 1TB SATA drives total. Three drives per "lane" on each card. CentOS 5.2 x86_64. I'm looking for advice on tuning this thing for performance. Especially for the

Hi, I have made complete rebuild and backport of Firefox 3.6.1 and Thunderbird 3.0.1 to CentOS 5. Packages come with language packs, debuginfo packages, xulrunner etc. I'm looking for QA testers. Upgrade from distro versions works pretty fine. Thanks, David Hrb??