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Hi, I have setup raid on a new server and have found that if I remove one drive it will boot but if I remove the other it says missing OS. I am using two 18.2Gig SCSI drives, using software raid 1. I have it setup with the following drives in this order. /boot swap / all are mirrored between the two drives. I remember a while back that their was a problem with grub would that be the

Hi, I am tring to install mkcdrec on centos 4.2. ( makes a bootable backup image of linux) I am using an rpm that I found for FC4 but it won't install it says that I am missing a package. perl(are) required by mkcdrec, v0.9.1, 1 I have check using yum and I have perl installed + lots of moduals. No matter what I try I can't get around it. Anyone have any suggestions. Thanks

Hi, We are starting a new project, and are trying to decide the best way to proceed. We want to setup a LAMP configuration using Centos, something we have been doing in the past with great success. The question is load balancing. We antisipate the potential for the system to receive 500,000 requests/ day with in the next year. We want to plan for that extra load now as we start the

Hi, I have a centos 4.2 server setup and running as a zimbra email server. It has 2 18.4Gig SCSI hard drives setup in software raid 1 for mirroring. I had tested the unit before production and found that if I disconnected one of the drives the other wouldn't boot I search and found that I had to modify the boot (I don't remember exactly at the moment) After testing I am sure it

Hi, I have been trying to install Centos 4.4 on my laptop with no success. I have just purchased a new Acer 5100 laptop with AMD Turion 64x2 1Gig ram 120Gig HD. I have tried the 64bit and the 32 bit versions but have the same problem with both of them. I can do the complete install but when the computer reboot it will hang on the hardware detection on the network right after where it says

Hi, I just built a new computer and wanted to install Centos 4.4 64bit on it. Specs AMD x2 64bit 3800+ EE Asus M2NBP-VM CSM 1 GIG RAM 60GIG HD IDE I can get it to boot from the cd and select language etc, and then it askes where the install is coming from. Cd, hd, network etc. Whats up it boots from the cd but then says its not there when it running from the cd. Any suggestions?

Hi, I have a client that is looking for an solution to do bandwidth monitoring and traffic shapping. I would like to use Centos if possible, but I need somthing that has a GUI so they can easily make changes and updates. It would have to be ip based or mac address. What would you suggest. I have looked a Ipcop and smoothwall as solutions so far. Thanks

Hi, I am working on a project where I have to move some parts files from an old Unix server. I have tared the files to floppy disc, but I can't mount them. After doing some reasearch I have found that the SCO Unix ver 3.2 uses a System V filesystem I think. From the article that I have read I need to add this filesystem to my kernel to be able to mount and read the floppy discs. Can

Hi I am using Centos 4.3 to host various web sites that I maintain. I am finding that I am getting more and more, and I have thought of setting up a hosting server to make things quicker for my self. I have setup webmin with virtualmin and it seems to work fine so far. What is everyone else using. I don't want to invest alot of money, but would like some thing that is quick and easy to

Hi, I am thinking of settting up a thin client server setup. I would like to set it up to work with linux and windows. I was going to use Symbiont but it says it needs a different version of linux to install. Has anyone used it with Centos before? Would it be easier to just install LTSP and set it up. I would like to b have a small box that does the dhcp and then allows users to logon to

Hi, I need to setup a socks server on my Centos 4.2 box. I need to have windows clients connect to a remote socks server to force all their traffic through a content filtered proxy server. Does anyone have any suggestions on a good socks server that will work with Centos Thanks Mace

Hi I am running Centos 4.3 and I having irratic problems with my mouse. I have the same problems with other versions of centos as well. I have search and tried everything that I could find but still it's not working right. It is a new microsoft laser wireless mouse 6000 For the most part it seems to work okay but it the buttons seem to click on there own a you move the mouse. For

Hi I am posting this message again because I am desperate. I have search the net, joined the x.org mailing list and have gotten no where. I never even got a response on the x.org mailing list. I am using a microsoft wireless laser mouse model 6000, and it moves fine but when you move over icons menus etc it will click on it own. I am at the point of switching to Ubuntu which works just

Hi I asked this question a while back and haven't gotten any response. I have a Microsoft wireless mouse 6000. It works on all the versions of linux I have tried except Centos I have tried version 4.2-4.3 and it has the same problems. I have scoured the internet looking for fixes but I have not been able to resolve the problem. The mouse seems to work fine but as you move it over menus

Hi, I have just installed the server cd 4.2 and was wondering what I would need to install to add xcfe4? I wanted to install a light weight desktop for playing around with. Do I have to install x11 and what packages would I install. I have added xcfe4 to Centos 4.2 after I had installed gnome and such. But not sure about with the server cd. Thanks

Hi, I just found that one of my centos servers was running at 100% cpu and had used up all the memory. I checked system monitor and was not able to find the culprit, I restarted the server and it seems fine now. Does anyone know of a simple way to have the server email me if the cpu load is at max for x amount of time. I am not sure how long it was running like that, I have not checked it

Hi, I am running centos server 4.2 and I have installed dante-server socks proxy I yumed it off a dag repo. The problem I am having is configuring it. I have edited the sockd.conf file but it still tells me that I don''t have an internal address setup. Does anyone have any suggestions. am I editing the wrong config file. if I do a locate sock*.conf I get the following list

Hi We setup a server the other day for a client, and it has a 35gig jazz drive in it. Centos 4.2 recognizes it as a cd disk. How would I go abouts getting it to read and write to it? When I click on the cd-rom disc icon it loads up cd/dvd creator. Shouldn't it just recognize it as an external drive? Thanks

Hi, I have a setup with raid 1 and one drive has failed, and the other drive won't boot says missing os. I thought I had it setup and tested but it would appear that it wasn't setup to boot form either drive. How can I boot from the good drive that is missing the grub. I am thinking of using linux rescue when booting from the centos 4.2 disc This is a production machine and I

Just a quick thanks to everyone involved with samba3 dev, I upgraded last night from 3.0.7 to 3.0.9 and it went really smoothly - just had to reset the permissions on /var/spool/samba so that people could print again! (It seems to reset perms each upgrade, but at least I know this now!). We are running the following without any hassle: Sage Approch Access all ms office suite openoffice Outlook