similar to: upgrade release to upstream to CentOS timeframes?

Fyi, re: fedora lifespan http://www.linuxlookup.com/2007/may/03/fedora_core_5_end_of_life - rh -- Abba Communications Spokane, WA 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, 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 on a simple CentOS 4 DNS server install i have the below info. crontab -l "shows nothing" pico /etc/crontab shows... SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ # run-parts 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly i

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 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, 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

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

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

On a Compaq DL360 G1 w/ dual PIII 1.27's I installed Centos 5 minimal and then a yum update When I do a "uname -a" I get this Linux tstsrvr.abbacomm.net 2.6.18-8.1.3.el5 #1 SMP Mon Apr 30 19:55:44 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux When I do a rpm -qa | grep kern* I get this kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5 kernel-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5 kernel-headers-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5 It is interesting

Anyone besides me totally throw (most) caution into the wind and yum update any mission critical production 4.x boxen to 4.5 without any problems? 8-p - rh -- Abba Communications Spokane, WA 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

Did CentOS get an alpha yet How does this one look? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160115818814 will it do the job or not? - rh -- Abba Communications Spokane, WA www.abbacomm.net

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 the subject says it all and i asked this back in June and i still have not found anything or useful direction in my searching... so i need to ask again. where is big Bryan when you need him? :-) ummm i am willing to "emulate" if i have to yet i would still just need some pointers or directions... anything please. these Intel Pro 2200 DSL modems are just so inexpensive that i

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

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 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