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

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 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

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 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

greetings i am thinking of purchasing a 256 meg or larger AGP video card my current card is a 128 meg nvidia geforce fx 5200 and i have a viewsonic vp201s lcd monitor are their larger memory AGP cards worth buying? i have no idea it will be for serious CentOS and Win XP integration and testing and eventually production issues... XP is a necessary support issue in these circumstances since i

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 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.

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

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 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 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

hello i thought i recently saw a thread here re: turning an older computer into a wireless access point and/or bridge etc using CentOS and some certain wireless cards?? does anyone recall or can you help me find that thread or URL please? ive found a coupla howto's yet just wanted to hit the list first before i wanted off into WAP land again... anyone here used any of the WAP howto's

Dear list... In regards to recent upgrade in www.clamav.net to 0.88.3 and... ...as an example I've used this page to create a process where I can create my own clamav programs/stuff/etc... http://qmail.jms1.net/clamav-upgrade.shtml and so I would go to http://crash.fce.vutbr.cz/crash-hat/4/clamav/ and snag the source rpm that Petr made for Fedora 4. He hasn't updated yet (pretty sure

greetings i have a certain production www and email server when i yum update [root at tst ~]# yum update Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras

greetings pre centos install raid5 setup on a compaq dl380 is asking for stripe size. 16kb 32kb 64kb i am using one of the built in controllers and the machine has just a gig of ram and 4 18.2 gig 10,000 rpm drives machine will be an email server with simple web hosting as well. suggestions? thanks - rh -- Robert Hanson - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509)