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Hi CentOS users I have here old CentOS 2.1 server on IBM Xseries 336. How to see serial number and machine type? It seems that "dmidecode" is not available for CentOS 2.1 cheers Simon -- XMPP: sjolle at swissjabber.org

...desktop system, I prefer 32 Bit installation because of teething troubles in 64 Bit Linux world. When would you choose 64 Bit and when 32 Bit? We are running mostly application and web services. Is this true that with 32 Bit architecture the kernel is limited to 1 GB RAM? cheers Simon -- XMPP: sjolle at swissjabber.org

Hi Centos Users # ping 10.104.89.146 connect: Invalid argument The Server has normal network connectivity. I ssh into it over this interface. Strace output on Pastebin [0]. SELinux is disabled. Centos 4.3 cheers Simon [0] http://pastebin.com/m720052a8 -- XMPP: sjolle at swissjabber.org

...host.localdomain:ntp ntpd 4874 ntp 7u IPv4 35808 UDP xxx:ntp ntpd 4874 ntp 8u IPv4 35809 UDP xxx:ntp ntpd 4874 ntp 9u IPv4 35810 UDP xxx:ntp ntpd 4874 ntp 10u IPv4 35811 UDP xxx:ntp NTP listens on every interface. cheers Simon -- XMPP: sjolle at swissjabber.org

Hi list I always configure my systems to use our local time (in my case /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich) and disable UTC. What are the differences between UTC and local time? What are their respective advantages and disadvantages? When to use UTC? cheers Simon -- XMPP: sjolle at swissjabber.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Debian Users I am searching for a virtual server/rootserver. I prefer a Xen instance, but also vservers are acceptable. Will be host a small Wiki - nothing mission critical. Here my criteria - - about 20 $ monthly - - payable with Credit Card or PayPal - - about 12 GB diskspace - - about 256 MB RAM - - about 350 GB monthly data transfer - -

Hi Centos Users I am searching for an Open Source Wiki CMS based on PHP/MySQL. There are so much out there, thats why feel free to share you experience. Please review your favorite Wiki software. Code quality, security, features and continuous, stable development. cheers Simon

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Centos Users How to enable Repositories mentioned in "What are all the CentOS repositories (directories) and what is each one for?" [0] # yum -y update Loading "installonlyn" plugin Loading "protectbase" plugin Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories base 100%

...Leaving directory `/tmp/snmppd-0.5.2/snmppd' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/snmppd-0.5.2' make: *** [all] Error 2 [...] Can anyone explain me "/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible" in plain english ;) How to solve it? cheers Simon -- XMPP: sjolle at swissjabber.org

...entos users I successfully installed a Centos 5.1 DomU on Debian Etch Dom0. I used the virtual file systems from Jailtime[0] How to this manual (without using Jailtime)? I wish to install from Scratch. Xen-tools/rpmstrap doesn't work for me. cheers Simon [0] http://jailtime.org/ -- XMPP: sjolle at swissjabber.org

Hi Centos Users I would like to allow outgoing traffic to Google Analytics servers (destination port 80). I wish to do a iptables rule. How to whitelist all Google Analytics servers? cheers Simon -- XMPP: sjolle at swissjabber.org

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Simon Jolle <urandomdev at gmail.com> wrote: > The problem is that other hosts are able to synchronize the time from > our servers. How to disable that? Which other hosts? Other hosts in the same subnet as dns1 and dns2? If that is the problem, maybe you should try changing "mask 255.255....

Hi CentOS users I am running a forum with small video clips (from YouTube and others). I convert those Macromedia Flash videos with: $ mencoder example.flv -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1000:autoaspect -vf pp=lb -oac mp3lame -lameopts fast:preset=standard -o example.avi I use mencoder RPM from Dag Wieers 1) Its very generic command line to convert videos. What would you improve? The size

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi list Can you please say me what this output exactly mean? Anything in relation to fans/cooling? What does "active" and "ok" mean? Which values are healthy? # acpi -tBSc Thermal 1: active[3], 50.0 degrees C Thermal 2: ok, 47.0 degrees C Thermal 3: ok, 45.0 degrees C Thermal 4: ok, 28.0 degrees C Thermal

...with local user to download those files. $ lftp test at localhost Password: lftp test at localhost:~> ls ls: Login failed: 500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/home/test lftp test at localhost:~> pwd ftp://test at localhost How to enable quick and dirty FTP transfer? cheers Simon -- XMPP: sjolle at swissjabber.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Centos Users How to secure a Wiki CMS? This Wiki is based on Apache2, MySQL and PHP. I cant read the code (lack of knowledge). Would be glad about hints and URLs cheers Simon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHsLAaEMN/lNE/wrwRAlqBAJ91UQgileOWgtjwqzxwfo2j6v2+yQCfb8tL eGkCnAkZ8lehGzUitDov6Iw= =s2ox -----END

...le or directory. Stop. make: *** [clean] Error 2 # ls -al /lib/modules/2.6.9-55.ELsmp/build ls: /lib/modules/2.6.9-55.ELsmp/build: No such file or directory # uname -r 2.6.9-55.ELsmp # rpm -q kernel-devel kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.4.EL.x86_64 cheers Simon [0] http://www.lsi.com/rdac/ -- XMPP: sjolle at swissjabber.org

Hi Centos Users Its _really_ nonsense to release RHEL version on file sharing networks. The only reason why RHEL is so popular on torrent trackers is the lack of knowledge about Centos :-) Conclusion: we should do more marketing :-) cheers Simon -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes

...0.21 99.47 10:40:01 AM 0 0.28 0.00 0.08 0.20 99.45 10:40:01 AM 1 0.22 0.00 0.07 0.21 99.50 [...] How its possible that the total CPU is 90% busy, but CPU 1 + 2 only 1%? The server have 2 processors. cheers Simon -- XMPP: sjolle at swissjabber.org

...work under CentOS 5? Would you recommend me even better products? I am searching for good performance, noise-less, smart standard support and no useless features like NFS/CIFS server, etc. [0] http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/freeagent_pro_data_movers/ cheers Simon -- XMPP: sjolle at swissjabber.org