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We have about 50 CentOS servers with software RAID level 1 (mirroring). Each week, we swap out one of the drives (the one in the second of four hot-swap bays, only the first two of which contain drives) on each server and take them offsite for safekeeping. The problem is, the kernel seemingly randomly switches between /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc for these devices. This makes the process slower by requiring more manual input where a script(s) could otherwise suffice. It also confuses smartd, which AFAIK, needs the correct device names to report accurate...

Hi I have purchased and installed a new PC and would like to transfer my mail (in Maildir format) to it. Are there any precautions I must take before copying the mail over? I will disable mail delivery temporarily so no new mail gets written to disk but I don't know if dovecot has to be stopped before copying/editing mail for backup or migrating purposes. Anything else I must pay

...it something else I haven't thought of yet? <G> If anyone has any ideas, fixes, or workarounds please let me know. BTW, the diskette was produced by the IC3 client-disk producer; the point of all this is so I can create an image of my hard drive using IC3 and put it on my HP-UX box for safekeeping. Thanks in advance for any help! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jayson T. Garrett, Mississippi College Computer Center P.O. Box 4026, Clinton, MS 39058 601.925.3826 garrett@mc.edu http://www.mc.edu/~garrett "The human race is divided into two sharply diff...

I'm contemplating the upgrade for my production network from (Red Hat Enterprises') version 3.0.2 to 3.0.7 (which is the latest from Red Hat). So I start to peruse the changelog and I see this: "Syntax errors in the OpenLDAP schema file (samba.schema)." as one of 4 bullet items at the top of the Samba 3.0.7 changelog. This has me a bit concerned. My production environment is

Hello, As part of testing an alternative module I saved the original module and copied the test one in. The test was done and I put the original module back. Now the original module is not loading at startup and doing it manually I get the error WARNING: Error inserting {Module name & path } Required key not available. And in /var/log/messages shortly after boot I can see kernel:

...Team, Cluster Administators, and the FreeBSD Foundation Board. The compromise page is kept updated on the results. The FreeBSD Project submitted an application for Google Summer of Code this year again. There was access granted for 2 new committers and 1 commit bit was taken for safekeeping in this quarter. __________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD Haskell Ports URL: http://wiki.freebsd.org/Haskell URL: https://github.com/freebsd-haskell/freebsd-haskell/ Contact: G?bor P?li <pgj at FreeBSD.org> Contact: Ashish Shukla <ashis...