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greetings i have a few dual P3 Compaq 1850R units and use compaq smartstart 5.5 on them before a CentOS 4 load i have acquired some dual P3 Compaq DL380 G1 i.e. Generation 1 units and am wondering which specific smartstart download i should be using for them from this URL below h18004.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/subscription/ssdownloads.asp would someone please share their experience

greetings, i just know i have read several times on this list and in other places that on a RAID5 array that the MBR should be placed on the /boot partition. is this truly correct and if so, why? my experiences of putting the MBR on the /boot partition are contrary to that it will even work and boot that way... comments please? regards, - rh -- Robert Hanson Abba Communications

greetings does the list at this url cover *all* options or are there some hidden or newer ones by chance? http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/rhel-ig-x8664-multi-en-4/ap-bootopts.html i am playing with CentOS 4 on some Compaq dual PIII hardware. The first unit is an 1850R with dual 500Mhz. If you need more info please let me know. it is a basic unit with raid controller and a Gig of DRAM etc.

greetings has anyone here setup a CentOS box to use as a home or business gateway for children through young adults or otherwise? i realize this is a generalized question and that iptables and many other things exist that could be implemented. im looking for a way to give the youngster the benefit of the doubt and allow them to "obey God/parents" first before they have to be totally

Greetings I did another quick server install on an old rackmount Compaq Proliant 1850R with hardware RAID5 today. would someone please shed some of their experience and light on how they deal with deleting or keeping the default configs on these items please when i do a chkconfig --list | grep :on | more nfslock 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off readahead

is it just me and my mail servers going wacko or is there a ton of traffic on the mailing list today? - rh -- Robert Hanson - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net

greetings i have a newer centos 4.2 server using qmail for smtp the /etc/yum.conf has this in it exclude=spamassassin exim postfix sendmail so when i do a yum update to go to 4.3 i get this --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: smtpdaemon for package: mdadm --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: smtpdaemon is needed by package mdadm how

greetings would someone please point me to an excellent server exercising, stressing, and/or testing program that will run on centos 4? i want one that will not out and out destroy a machine so to speak... ...meaning testing is one thing, yet pounding a box in the hard drive department over and above the cause or unnecessarily does not appeal to me. fyi the box i want to test/stress this time

greetings, i was wondering if i missed an announcement or if the quarterly update pushed back the release of the single CD server install ISO ??? :-) is there an ETA please? thank you! - rh -- Robert Hanson - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net

greetings i have a lady that likes the getrichquick stuff and has subscribed to just about every possible spammers mail queue in the known universe. right now she has 2290 emails in her mailbox and i cannot view them in squirrelmail to dust em i dont want to dust her email just yet.... i want to learn from this situation how to better admin for a single user as well as the entire system

Apologies for being late to the party with this... I finally found my old notes on this re: helping out a blind friend fix his centos box... log in as root cd /usr/share/timezone cd /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/ cp Los_Angeles /etc/localtime /usr/bin/rdate -s time.nist.gov /sbin/hwclock --systohc For more details, go to http://wiki.ehow.com/Change-the-Timezone-in-Linux - rh -- Robert

greetings, the subject says it all right? ;-> naw...... is the 3ware Escalade 9500S series mature enough yet for CentOS? - rh -- Robert Hanson Abba Communications http://www.abbacomm.net

greetings, since i have a test server in front of me and i have never tried it i request your assistance please. ive always been a fdisk and lilo person i have a fresh CentOS 4 "test" install on a WD120 sata /dev/sda /dev/sda1 / /dev/sda2 /boot /dev/sda3 swap and it just so happens i have a old test 17Gig Maxtor PATA with a fresh Win98 on it from helping my father migrate to a newer

greetings on a CentOS 4 _server_ install for a dns server rpm -qa | grep bind bind-9.2.4-2 bind-libs-9.2.4-2 bind-chroot-9.2.4-2 bind-utils-9.2.4-2 ypbind-1.17.2-3 rpm -qa | grep name caching-nameserver-7.3-3 ok, so i do this yum remove caching-nameserver and it is gone. now, do i need to leave bind-9.2.4-2 to use the bind-chroot-9.2.4-2 ??? or can i yum remove bind and still have a

From: Robert Hanson <roberth at abbacomm.net> > or should i be more specific with the question(s)? > the reason i ask is that i just dumped 2 gig dram in a basic > P4 Intel 3.0GHz box to play with. > regards and TIA, At more than 1GiB on Linux/x86, you must use a 4G+4G kernel (this is the default) to see more than 960MiB. This causes a signficant (10%+) performance hit. On

greetings, is it a proper way and/or good idea to perform a yum update in the background like this? yum -y update & at this moment, i do not have as reliable of an "wireless access connection" to the remote server machine at the data center as i would like and i want to take this one box from 4.1 to latest 4.2 comments please? thanks! - rh -- Robert Hanson - Abba

i cant believe i have a production box online without gcc installed using a new CentOS 4 server CD??? confused to say the least as i always install all the compiler and etc components... will the command yum install gcc get me everything i need or should i specify something else to get everything in one swoop that i might ever need thanks - rh -- Robert Hanson - Abba Communications

Greetings, I am not able to find the 4.3 single server cd torrent or iso Would someone please tell me where it currently resides? :-) Thanks in advance! - rh -- Robert Hanson - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net

greetings, can someone(s) in authority please come up with a plan(s) of action in regards to this list medium? unfortunately this list has pretty much reached the point of no return and has become virtually useless. - rh -- Robert - Abba Communications Computers & Internet Sales/Service www.abbacomm.net

greetings today i was expanding my knowledge of vsftpd on a low traffic CentOS 4 production environment server i have fyi, i was working on learning to setup a chroot environment by the simple editing of /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf so, as i normally do when i start making changes i did this cd /etc/vsftpd/ cp -a vsftpd.conf bak-vsftpd.conf then i made the edits in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf that i