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...basis. The second idea was to set each filesystem to a different random count value. This would run the risk of having two or more executions at the same time but it would probably not be very frequent. Does anyone have a suggestion for a better way of doing this? TIA Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

...ke to minimize downtime (during the reboot) where possible. > And unless you reboot frequently you are probably hitting the time > setting, not the mount count. This is in fact what transpired on the weekend and I would leave this in place as a protective measure. Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

...fine until the last command which fails with: rndc: connect failed: connection refused I can get around this by using "service named start" but I should not have to do this. Has anyone encountered something similar and can pass on some words of wisdom? TIA Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

...a slave for the other subnet? 3. Any pointers to applicable docs/examples? 4. Can you recommend a "front end" for BIND (we have webmin installed but I have yet to start working with it)? Any and all thoughts, suggestions, criticisms gladly accepted. TIA Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

From: Gordon Messmer Sent: April 21, 2015 10:30 > > On 04/21/2015 09:40 AM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > > I accept that fscks are required on a periodic basis and I > am willing > > to reboot more often to achieve these but I would like to minimize > > downtime (during the reboot) where possible. > > Why do you accept that? Every article I have read on the subje...

...ing to install LessFS on this CentOS 5.7 box but we have now encountered problems with fuse version. Has anyone out there been able to get LessFS running on CentOS 5.7 and can provide some pointers? If not LessFS can you suggest an alternate deduplication software? TIA Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

From: Mark Milhollan Sent: April 21, 2015 05:35 > On Mon, 20 Apr 2015, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > > >CentOS 6 > > >From ''man fstab'' ... > > The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) > program to determine the order > in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. > The root filesystem should be >...

From: Warren Young Sent: April 21, 2015 14:13 > On Apr 21, 2015, at 9:50 AM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > > > > From: Kay Diederichs Sent: April 21, 2015 03:43 > >> > >> instead of having 20 for all of them, set > >> the first filesystem to 17, the second to 19, the third to > 23, and the > >> fourth to 29. > > > > Thanks but t...

From: Warren Young Sent: April 22, 2015 20:46 > On Apr 22, 2015, at 11:56 AM, Hugh E Cruickshank > <hugh at forsoft.com> wrote: > > > > I have done some "what if" testing. > > Using which tool? My simulator, or something you cooked up > yourself? If the latter, would you care to share? I cobbled something together in OpenEdge ABL. I have uploaded...

Hi All: It appears that the RPMforge.net site is down. Can someone confirm and possibly advise when it might be expected back? TIA Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

...way to automate the handling of bounced emails. I have spend some time looking an scan find one open source package, bounceHammer, and one commercial package, BoogieTools. Does any comments on the effectiveness of either package? Any suggestions on other packages? TIA Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

From: Kay Diederichs Sent: April 21, 2015 03:43 > On 04/21/2015 06:08 AM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > > > > The second idea was to set each filesystem to a different random > > count value. This would run the risk of having two or more > > executions at the same time but it would probably not be very > > frequent. > > Using "tune2fs -c", set...

...s part of the e2fsprogs package but this appears to only test for bad blocks not display the current bad block table contents. I have done quite a bit of searching with Google but either it does not exist or (more than likely) I am using the wrong search parameters. TIA Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

...ft.com/IN': deleting an RR This would seem to indicate that the printer itself has issued the request to the DNS server but for the life of me I cannot see what might be doing it. Has anyone encountered something similar and can point me in the right direction? TIA Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

...I need to change references to "file ldap" to just "files". I am loath to make such changes without something more definite then my personal suspicion. Can someone confirm that I am on the right track or, if not, point me in the right direction? TIA Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

...f something short of an automatic email receiving and routing package (which I have not done any research on) that might fit my simple requirements. Failing that can anyone recommend an automatic email receiving and routing package that is not to difficult to setup? TIA Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

...hat the terminfo ansi-m file is no longer distributed with the CentOS 6.2 (along with many others). Can anyone advise how I can obtain this file? As a work around I have copied the file from a CentOS 4 box but that is probably not the "proper" way to do it. TIA Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

...-220.17.1.el6.i686) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.i686 ro [SNIP] initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.i686.img mem=26624M but this has not appeared to work. Any suggestions would be gratefully appreciated. TIA Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

...drive. I know that I can just reboot the system and kudzu will add the tape drive back in during the boot process however I was wondering if it would be possible to manually run kudzu to add the drive or am I just "borrowing trouble" by trying to do this? TIA Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 10:26:46 -0700 "Hugh E Cruickshank" <hugh at forsoft.com> wrote: > From: Rudi Ahlers Sent: June 9, 2020 10:22 > > > > I am looking for an offline accounting package recommendation, > > please. I enjoyed using Xero accounting, but need something that's > > offline, and where the data remain...