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raid controller - compatibility list
Sorry for my English. I have to change my server. I should like to mount a raid controller for hdd sata/sataII. I'll work in raid 1 or 5. And I'll mount Fedora 7 (if possible). I didn't found complete information for compatibility about the most popular controller (Promise supertrack EX or Fasttrack TX, or A... 6 Aug 2007 09:02

Sun x4100 unusally high load
Hello, We have been having this ongoing issue on some of our Sun x4100 hardware (Dual Opterons 280's, 16GB ram RHEL 4 AS) in which the system will sit idle with no CPU activity and have a load of 3 consistently. This is occurring on random servers web, db etc but there is no pattern to it. We have a tick... 6 Aug 2007 08:26

Dovecot question
Hi, I setting up a new mail server with postfix for smtp and dovecot for pop3 on a CentOS 4 machine. Both postfix (2.4.5) and dovecot (1.0.3) are built from source. I am unable to make dovecot listen to the ethernet interface despite " protocol pop3 { listen = *:110 ..." in dovecot.cfg. Output from nets... 6 Aug 2007 15:19

yum repo priorities
I'd like to set priorities on my yum repos, but not the way the yum-priorities (CentOS or Fedora EPEL) does it. yum-priorities allows prioritizing repos, but it also overrides versions. I'd like to prioritize repositories, but NOT override versions. Example: repo1 with pri=1 has pkg1-1.0 and pkg2-1.0 repo2 wi... 29 Jul 2007 00:41

trouble with add/remove software
I have installations of Fedora Core 6 and CentOS 5.0 (two very similar Red Hat clone distros, both using the 2.6.18 kernel) on two different machines (one is 32 bit, the other is 64 bit), and I have the same problem with the add/remove software update utility (Pirut) on both of them: when I click on it, I get ... 28 Jul 2007 11:19

X11 installation
i'm trying to install X server on a RHEL AS4 U4 64-bit distribution but with no luck. i had the OS installed at the beginning then tried to install X from loca repos. i copied the cds contents into a local dir then ran an up2date xog- x11, and the packages were installed. but when i trued to startx i got the f... 28 Jul 2007 09:46

Strange behaviour by user switcher in Fedora 7
Dear All, I am facing a strange problem with the user switcher in Fedora 7 and can not seem to get the hang of it. Let us say that I (User A) am busy with my work with many windows open. Then my son (User B) wants to play games for say 30 minutes. Since I want to resume as soon as he is finished, I (A) do not... 9 Aug 2007 09:33

gimp hangs in Fedora 7
Dear All, I have been a Linux user for more than a decade. However, the experience that program hangs in Linux is somewhat new for me. After I upgraded my machine (Dell, 1GB RAM, PIV processor) to Fedora 7, gimp has started to hang after about ten minutes of use. It works fine (pencil, crop and fill), but whenev... 23 Jul 2007 17:42

Newbie Question: fc7 vs fc7xen
Apologies in advance for the following silly questions: 1. What's the difference between fc7 and fc7xen? 2. Is there a specification out there somewhere that gives the details? Gratitude w/o Attitude, -REB ... 20 Jul 2007 20:26

Help Installing Yum
Not the best idea I had, but I was getting frustrated with an error yum kept giving me (python(abi) = 2.4 is needed) so I uninstalled it from my RH Enterprise 5 server thinking I could easily reinstall. I have been trying to get it installed again but have been unsuccessful. I tried using rpm file yum-3.2.1-1.src.r... 15 Jul 2007 00:43