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What is the ramifications to simply placing scripts in the /etc/cron.hourly directory as opposed to actually adding jobs via the crontab -e method? Is there any significance to using one method versus the other? Thanks! jlc

I need to increase reliability at an office as SIP/Internet provider outages are causing some issues. What would be the least expensive analogue card that people are using reliably? Thanks! jlc

I need to implement a solution and not having ever used anything but MS Project I would be grateful for a reco on something good. The only hope would be that its web based but I am open to anything! Thanks! jlc

What is the closest open source mail server I can replace exchange with that provides the nearest equivalent in user experience? Thanks! jlc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080406/5a469804/attachment-0001.html>

Hey Guys, I am trying to get a python script running but I get the following error: atexit.register(atexit_handler) NameError: global name 'atexit' is not defined A Google search doesn't really help me, except confirm that I don't know anything about python:) Anyone got any ideas? Thanks, jlc

I have a user w/o a shell that runs an app as a daemon that needs to use mutt to email an attachment from a script. During testing when the app was ran as root everything worked:) Now that we obviously are running as a user w/o a shell this little bit broke. I used mutt as I needed to send the attachment as mime, and the ability to specify a muttrc from the cli when executed was useful so we

I need an idea on how to accomplish this: I have a cluster that I only want to run cron jobs on when its active. I know the cron script can check for node status, but then I have multiple copies to maintain wheres my existing resources all reference config on the shard fs (httpd/sql etc) so a change on the active node makes that permanent on the next node. Any idea how to do this? Thanks! jlc

Trying to rsync a rather large file from a windows server to a centos server and all but this is working fine. As it's a 20 gig file I am trying to send the diff of with a -c, I suspect over the low bandwidth this presents an issue. I also stage this file locally on another centos server and could calc the diff and create a patch and send that, comparing checksums etc... A quick look at

I have been searching the net for directions on rhel and centos 5(1) to log in to a windows domain and have found many examples, all different and none work for me. Is there a hint to some documentation anyone here knows of that actually works? Thanks! jlc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

What's the simplest way to increment the number 0000 up by one until some other 4 digit number while preserving leading zero's until the 1000's has a digit other than 0? Thanks! jlc

How can I do this w/o restarting services or rebooting? Thanks! jlc

When choosing either of these methods and using an iso, how does CentOS determine the right iso file to mount? Is there an expected file name format? Thanks! jlc

For ages I have been keeping docs and notes in Public Folders inside an Exchange server and want to move this out to a more modern facility that allows tagging and searching via a web interface for keywords so I can keep all my notes more organized. Anyone have any personal recos for the slickest system to do this with. Given the nature of my home setup, its routinely used to lab stuff up so I

We are moving all our (limited and badly organized) documentation to a wiki. Anyone got any examples/pointers to a hierarchy that made logical sense? We are hoping to move everything from topology to application specific notes in to the wiki. Given the size of this task, I only want to do this once:) Thanks for any reco's! jlc

How does one access the properties associated with the blanking CentOS does at init3? How would I disable this for example? Thanks! jlc

What are the ramifications to a large key length when using pub/priv keys for ssh authentication. I have some remote admin and file transfers to manage and only have ssh access w/o vpn to use for it. Thanks, jlc

Hey guys, Where is a good place people here have used with luck to find devs interested in work? I have a simple need involving an Axis M1031-W Camera I need an interface programmed for... Thanks! jlc

Anyone got any experience/suggestions for a way to store a directory of sensitive information on a CentOS box? This directory contains many scripts and output files, I need it backed up but not unencrypted and don't want to store it in a tar file type archive as when it needs to be accessed and have scripts executed/data generated, it needs to be untarred/unencrypted and I don't know the

Any way to initiate a call and execute a playback of an audio file from the cli? My only chance to debug or make changes is usually when no one's at the office including me! Thanks! jlc

Anyone know how to submit jobs to at or anything else that allows jobs submitted to a queue to be executed consecutively? I have a series of servers that submits a job via an ssh background job but I can only have one execute at any given time. Possibly some clever bash work? Thanks! jlc