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Hi, Need some advice on installing postfix in CentOS4. Which is better, installing by yum or rpm -i or by compiling from source code? What are the advantages and/or disadvantages of each. Thanks. junji linux registered user #253162 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

Hi Friends, I am planning to upgrade my mail server from CentOS4.5 to CentOS5. By this, I also planned to replace my postfix mail server with Scalix although the community edition limit me to just 25 premium user, I think it is suffice for us with the remaining user as standard user (with approx. <> 100 users total). Is there a catch on using Scalix based on your experience. I see that

Jun Salen ha scritto: > Hi, > > I have no problem running yum update inside the root prompt, but when running yum using sudo as logged-in as ordinary user and command the 'sudo yum update', I am having below error: > > Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge error was > [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection

Hi List, My Mail/Proxy server has from time to time refuse to accept accept network connection. If I restart the network service, the service will again start to accept connection but after some time will again refuse connection. I use CentOS 4.5 with Squid, DansGuardian, Postfix. Please can someone point me what are the possible cause of this. Thank you. junji aisalen.wordpress.com Linux

Hi, I just wonder if I can replace PIX firewall with machine having IPTable as my firewall. I want to control our firewall but due to the lack of knowledge in configuring PIX, i want to replace it with Linux or BSD. I do not have the time now to learn the complexity of PIX and yet I want to know what happening in my firewall and control it as much as possible. Do you think it is justifiable for

Hi, I have no problem running yum update inside the root prompt, but when running yum using sudo as logged-in as ordinary user and command the 'sudo yum update', I am having below error: Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl

I cannot seem to find a checkinstall rpm package for CentOS-6 or one for x86_64 more recent than CentOS4. When I try to build it locally from the most recent source I can find, c.2006, I get build errors having to do with size constants either missing or improperly defined. Does anyone have a source for an rpm of this package that runs on CentOS-6_x86_64 or can recommend a replacement for it?

Hi All, I try to installed ClamAV using rpm from Karan.org repository but I can't find the clamd.conf and freshclam.conf file. After listing the file installed by using rpm -ql | grep clamav, I observe that it was really not included in the installation. Did I miss something here? If possible, I want to use RPM based installation for easy maintenance and also based on your suggestions from my

Hi all, I found an article (with python script) on how to clean up Maildir folder for old email messages from http://www.ducea.com/2006/11/25/cleanup-maildir-folders-archive-delete-old-mails/ . As I understand, this will be run by each user after login. How can I make this runs at least once a month and delete all users message with age more than one month for example using crontab? I am using

Hi, Last year, I tried to installed and evaluate the following OSS web base trouble ticketing system. This is for me to track history on our IT related issues. Those that I tried are the PHP Ticket, DanPHPSupport, Epix Power Support, ruQueue, Ticket Express, OTRS, PMOS Help Desk and eTicket. From those, PMOS and eTicket are my top picks. I have problem installing OTRS the last time, so I am

Hi, I just finished replacing my mail server with the new one from CentOS 4.6 to CentOS 5.1. The mail are running smoothly with user able to send/receive mail from Outlook using IMAP or POP3 and Webmail locally. My problem is that when I am outside my network like in home, I cannot able to access the Webmail. In my prior mail server, it is ok. Is there anybody here have clues for me to look for?

I am wondering why slapd in my CentOS 4.4s erver was unable to run. I already configure ldap to start at boot and when I issue command /sbin/service ldap start it is sucessfully started but again when I check the status etheir thru service or by netstat, it was stopped and not exist respectively. Is anybody encountered this. If you need some more info just let me know. Thanks. junji linux

I search from google on how to restrict user from sending mail and I did trial and errors for three days already but to no success. What I want to do is to restrict some user in sending mail while some unrestricted user will send mail to internet and intranet. I am able to restrict outside address (i.e. gmail, yahoo) to not send mail on restricted users but the vice versa I can not do. Is there

Hi, The Ping service in Nagios has "unknown" status which was previously OK, this happens after i messed up some of the files owner and accidentally change it to Apache. Although I restored most of the file permission back to Root, the problem above still appears which I suspect is due to permission. Does anybody have idea where to look at. Thanks, junji aisalen.wordpress.com Linux

Hi List, I am not familiar with the commands of IPtables so I want use tools on top of it. What do you suggest. Can I make test of it inside CentOS on top of VMWare server with only one LAN inteface? I try to use Pfsense, I believe it has easy to understand GUI but it fails to install on my desktop machine to test, maybe due to hardware comaptibility. Kernel panic during boot even after disabling

Hi list, I can install the default ppp-2.4.4-2, but when I try to install an rpm I built from Sangoma's ppp-2.4.4.5 (using checkinstall-1.6.1) I get this error: # rpm -ivh ppp.2.4.4.5-1.eai.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: ppp < 2.4.3-3 conflicts with kernel-2.6.18-162.2.1.el5.i686 Isn't 2.4.4.5 > 2.4.3-3 ??? trying this: yum localinstall ppp.2.4.4.5-1.eai.i386.rpm

Hi list, Has anyone here use SquidGuard for their Squid proxy running in CentOS4.4 to block list of bad sites? Is the RPM available using yum? Any feedback using this software appreciated. Thank you very much. junji linux registered user #253162 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

Hi I downl;oaded the source distribution of wine 0.9.14 and compiled it as described in the readme file. I now created an rpm with checkinstall. My problem is that I can not install it, as it tells me that there is a conflict with the package desktop-file-utils-0.10-9: # rpm -Uvh wine-0.9.14-1.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] file

Hi, There is a new annoucement in Zimbra site (http://www.zimbra.com/forums/announcements/14213-our-centos-users.html) in response to discussion started by Johnny Hughes retorting the first announcement made by Zimbra not supporting CentOS (http://www.zimbra.com/forums/installation/14144-centos-not-supported.html). For your info. junji aisalen.wordpress.com Linux Registered User #253162

>Firewall? What have you done to try and find out what the problem is? I disable firewall and SELinux on mail server machine and the PIX firewall where the machine connects to outside world allow port 80 and 443 just as before but still the problem persist. I will try to up later the old machine and will check if the web mail becomes accessible and then restore the new machine (this is in