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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, 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

test ping - rh -- Robert Hanson - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net

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 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 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

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, 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

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 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.

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 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

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

Ok, ok I am a "one minute" perl expert now (sung to the tune of "I read the One Minute Manager Book today yeah yeah yeah baby baby" :p My first perl research and program called test.pl use Net::DNS; print Net::DNS->version, "\n"; the result of "perl test.pl" as expected was 0.48 Please keep the applause to a minimum please. Tens and twenties work

Greetings Some time ago I briefly played with NFS. More recently with Samba. What I am wondering is if NFSv4 is already integrated into Centos 4 from upstream. Reference: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/6331/1/ if not, is there a timeline? Centos 5 ? and... is or can NFS be a compatible yet better replacement for Samba? thanks - rh -- Robert - Abba Communications

I was doing an Internet facing server reload for a client today and he mentioned that there is a minimal install selection somewhere and that I should take a disk 1 of centos 4.4 and it would be under custom Is this the case? How? I couldn't find it, nor could he after the fact. If it exists, where is it, or how do I get to it for future reference please? I usually use a centos server cd

Please share some wisdom from the list... :-) Realistically there is some type of difference between an rpm made for an arch (like i386 or x86_64 etc) vrs an rpm with noarch I was just looking at and downloaded these two from dag perl-Archive-Tar-1.30-1.el4.rf.noarch.rpm perl-IO-Zlib-1.04-1.2.el4.rf.noarch.rpm they are the latest and are not assigned to an architecture there are older rpms of

Interesting If someone tries to grep a whole Centos 4 server as root from / for a single word, will you see errors like this? :-) WARNING: Kernel Errors Present Buffer I/O error on device fd0p10...: 51 Time(s) Buffer I/O error on device fd0p11...: 51 Time(s) Buffer I/O error on device fd0p12...: 51 Time(s) Buffer I/O error on device fd0p16...: 102 Time(s) Buffer I/O error

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