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Greetings, I wanted to enable blackhole and CSV engine in the mysql server so downloaded the SRPM from Centos Site, setup the rpmbuild envronment with mighty help from the our own Russ's Owlriver website and tried building it. I have a 5.2 centos box on which I need to enable this so took the 5.2 SRPM (mysql-5.0.45-7.el5.src.rpm) from vault.centos.org.(mysql The Build did not complete

Greetings, I am aware that mounting filesystems with noatime option greatly increases speed. I have tried to follow discussion on the pros and cons of using noatime. I have however not been able to mount with the option relatime in centos 5.2. But in a production db server, which is backed up by HP DP, is it advisable to mount with noatime? Anybody care to share their experience on it?

Greetings, I am trying to prepare 1. installer usb using iso with (centos minimal + custom rpm) 2. a Live usb using (centos minimal + custom rpm) I do not have any information of the configuration of target system beforehand -- especially the storage devices. Could be two or more and may a dvd-rw. Unknown 1. How does one specify the path for kickstart file in the syslinux.cfg which is in the

Greetings, I just downloaded the mmonit from mmonit.com site on my CentOS box untarred-unizipped it. As per the documentation, I dutifully typed ./bin/mmonit and it is refusing to run. I am running this as root and SELinux is disabled. running it with strace spews the following (in entireity): [begin] # strace ./bin/mmonit execve("./bin/mmonit", ["./bin/mmonit"], [/* 28

Greetings, I have installed phpmyadmin on a Centos 6.2 box. When I try to access it through http://localhost/phpmyadmin it is giving me a 403 forbidden error any clues? TIA. -- Regards, Rajagopal

Greetings, How does one monitor if a site is being accessed using browser? IOW, I just want to know if a user has launched a session thru Firefox. I basically want to know if a user has tried to access the webserver and unable to reach it and log such instances. I am using cron and curl to seperately monitor the link. Any clues? Centos 5.2/Gnome/Firefox 3.0.16 Regards Rajagopal

Greetings, I have installed Centos 6.3 recently on bare metal (as dual boot with win 7) and want to access the existing NTFS through XP Guest. SELinux is enforcing and VM network is NAT. Google confused me more that educating me -- maybe I could not cobble up the right phrase. Any help appreciated. TIA It is my only system at home. -- Regards, Rajagopal

Greetings, I have a USB external 2TB HDD with one NTFS partition which is to be used for backup up from about 5-8 workstations (all Win*) all are shut down when the office is closed I am playing around with Amanda server on Centos 5.7. (It is over 3 years since I last implemented Amanda for about 50 workstations mostly Fedora and couple of XP boxes -- it sang and danced quite nicely.) Now the

Greetings, I have created several scripts which needs to be packaged. I have done my groundwork on rpmbuild Let us say I have 4 directories with scripts in them dir1, dir2, dir3 and dir4 I want to create different packages which will contain the compiled code (err.. shc) pack1: dir1,dir2 pack2: dir1,dir3 pack3: dir1,dir3 I want the resulting rpm packages will be residing elsewhere (perhaps

Greetings, Have been looking at the specs of Boston Venom T4000. Boston Venom T4000 http://www.bostonindia.in/products/bos-t4000.aspx I could not figure out the lowest base price points, HA features and KVM support Yet to work out the storage part of say 8TB storage (with HA features, of course) for this beast. and accessability issues from devices. I am in the middle of trying to find out

Greetings, I have written a script using lftp to mirror one directory from a ftp site. I do not have access to the server except for being a humble user. This is running on a fully updated Centos 5.3 box. I am using whatever is provided by the repositories. I noticed that lftp consumes almost all of cpu times I found this while searching for a solution.

Greetings, Can somebody point me in this direction with some links please? -- Regards, Rajagopal

Greetings, On 1/22/11, Edward Morbius <dredmorbius at gmail.com> wrote: > CentOS is not a Dell-supported configuration, and we've had little helpful > advice from Dell. There's been some amount of FUD in that Dell don't seem > to know what Dell's own software installation (the md3 > > Dell doesn't seem to have much OS experience generally. > +1 It is

Greetings, I have a CSV file with three fields. eg. a1,b1,c1 a2,b2,c2 .... I wanted the output to be: b1,c1,a1 b2,c2,a2 .... the command cut -d, -f2,3,1 <file> returns a1,b1,c1 cut -d, -f2,3 <file> works as advertised. Is it specific to linux? In that case how do I go about swapping two columns? I do not think a gazzillion byte gui is required. The file size is about 43Megs.

Greetings, I have one centos server for network monitoring. there are remote devices which are connected through ADSL lines and hence Dynamic IPs Q1. Is there any tool which is capable of handling this type of situation? Q2. Is there a workaround for this problem Regards Rajagopal

Greetings, I have a freshly installed Centos 6.2 box with everything (darn! I had to hand select each and every package -- IIRC one of the fedora versions had a nice "select all" checkbox). My questions are: 1. Can somebody suggest a way to select all packages while installing from DVD? 2. Can somebody suggest a versioning system which integrates well with a bug tracking system (I had

Greetings, Scenario: Centos box with eth1 (10.0.0.0/24) and eth0 (192.168.0.0/24) segment on eth0 has access to full bandwidth of uplink Both are on 100mbps switches Requirements: bandwith on segment on eth1 needs to be throttled to different speeds - say 32, 64, 128kbps and the such. Required for application performance testing purposes. As usual my girlfriend google is very verbose.

Greetings, I have helped host a few applications such as GLPI, OCSInventory, etc etc. using the tarball method and untarring them in /var/www/htom directory. I have never done them though using yum. I was trying to install Trac, Bugzilla etc using yum install method on a Centos 6.2 box. Somehow I am not able to see the respective pages say even using http://localhost/trac or

Greetings, On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan <raju.rajsand at gmail.com> wrote: > > To my knowlege, a root file system of size 64GB should be handled > peacefully by centos. > > GPT comes into picture only on > 2tb partitions for different mountpoints. > I changed the label on the 64 GB ssd to msdos using parted in the ctrl+alt+F2 terminal window

I have configured 2x 500G sata HDD as Software RAID1 with three partitions md0,md1 and md2 with md2 as 400+ gigs Now it is almost 36 hours the status is cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md0 : active raid1 hdb1[1] hda1[0] 104320 blocks [2/2] [UU] resync=DELAYED md1 : active raid1 hdb2[1] hda2[0] 4096448 blocks [2/2] [UU] resync=DELAYED md2 : active raid1