Re: [CentOS-docs] Screenshot on FrontPage
Hi again, I don't think it's a good idea to put a screenshot on the frontpage as the wiki should be used as technical reference and give an overview about the project itself as well as it's outcomes . I agree that a visual impression of CentOS would be nice but I think it shouldn't be part of the wiki frontpage. You may want to take a look at ... an option could be to add a set of screenshots to the bottom of the Download page showing current screenshots of the latest available versions. Best Regards Marcus ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Contributing on CentOS Wiki
No problem! Thanks Ralph! And have a nice 2009 year! On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Ralph Angenendt ra+cen...@br-online.dera%2bcen...@br-online.de wrote: Vitor Afonso Strabello wrote: Hello, I'm Vitor Afonso Strabello and I need to be added as a member into the Wiki to edit/create some tips and entries on the Wiki. Just a short Hi - I don't really have the network connectivity I'd like to have at the moment, so I'll get back to you after the holidays (Monday or Tuesday next week). Merry (last day of) christmas :) Cheers, Ralph ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs -- Inté msn: vstrabe...@hotmail.com ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Screenshot on FrontPage
Marcus Moeller wrote: Dear Dag. .. This is to notify that I have put a screenshot on the FrontPage. It is not an exciting screenshot, just a simple default desktop with the browser opened and pointed to the wiki itself. I don't think it's a good idea to put a screenshot on the frontpage as... I actually quite like it :) You may want to take a look at openSUSE.org to see how it's handled there. They make use of some AJAX elements to keep the content in front. IMHO, the opensuse.org front page is visually light years ahead of anything CentOS currently has to offer on the InterWeb. Just my opinion... I'll go put on my flame-proof suit now ;) ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Screenshot on FrontPage
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Dag Wieers wrote: On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Fabian Arrotin wrote: Dag Wieers wrote: This is to notify that I have put a screenshot on the FrontPage. It is not an exciting screenshot, just a simple default desktop with the browser opened and pointed to the wiki itself. hmm, is it possible to at least take the screenshot as a *non* root user ? I don't think the goal is to provide wiki users bad habits :-p Sure, be my guest. I took this one on a newly installed machine that was going to be scratched anyway. So I didn't see the point in creating a user. Little did I know the username was visible somewhere ;-) Hmm, maybe if the artwork SIG has time for this, they (no doubt) can make a more appealing screenshot that is technically and estethically better. I am also not convinced about the black border, but I lack the proper skills to make it match with the rest of the project style. I actually got the idea for the screenshot and the MoinMoin code from the FOSDEM 2009 page, which I like because it has a picture ;-) -- -- dag wieers, d...@centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Screenshot on FrontPage
Dear Dag, This is to notify that I have put a screenshot on the FrontPage. It is not an exciting screenshot, just a simple default desktop with the browser opened and pointed to the wiki itself. hmm, is it possible to at least take the screenshot as a *non* root user ? I don't think the goal is to provide wiki users bad habits :-p Sure, be my guest. I took this one on a newly installed machine that was going to be scratched anyway. So I didn't see the point in creating a user. Little did I know the username was visible somewhere ;-) Hmm, maybe if the artwork SIG has time for this, they (no doubt) can make a more appealing screenshot that is technically and estethically better. I am also not convinced about the black border, but I lack the proper skills to make it match with the rest of the project style. I already wrote Al a mail on that. I guess we are going to find a way to make it look prettier, but my though still is that a screenshot on the frontpage is simply not necessary nor useful. It also does not scale well on small devices (try to take a look at it on your e71). Instead I would suggest to put a set of screenshots either on a separate page or on the 'Download' site. Best Regards Marcus ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Screenshot on FrontPage
Marcus Moeller wrote: Dear Dag, This is to notify that I have put a screenshot on the FrontPage. It is not an exciting screenshot, just a simple default desktop with the browser opened and pointed to the wiki itself. hmm, is it possible to at least take the screenshot as a *non* root user ? I don't think the goal is to provide wiki users bad habits :-p Sure, be my guest. I took this one on a newly installed machine that was going to be scratched anyway. So I didn't see the point in creating a user. Little did I know the username was visible somewhere ;-) Hmm, maybe if the artwork SIG has time for this, they (no doubt) can make a more appealing screenshot that is technically and estethically better. Took about 2 minutes with KolourPaint to fix the image to get rid of root, but I lack edit rights on the FrontPage and didn't want to hit the list with an almost 200K image attachment. By the way, the large image can be compressed to a substantially smaller (storage) size without too much degradation. Would be glad to supply my hacked version on request. I am also not convinced about the black border, but I lack the proper skills to make it match with the rest of the project style. I already wrote Al a mail on that. I guess we are going to find a way to make it look prettier, but my though still is that a screenshot on the frontpage is simply not necessary nor useful. It also does not scale well on small devices (try to take a look at it on your e71). Sure makes the page look bad on my N800 Internet Tablet. The opensuse.org page looks a bit better on that device than the current FrontPage, including the handling of screenshots, but is still rather heavy on the graphics for small devices. Checking out the openSUSE page Shop link did stimulate me to find the Promo Sig's to-do list for merchandising branded goods and the included link to http://centos.spreadshirt.com/us/US/Shop/ which might be another good idea for the FrontPage, but guess that's somewhat OT for this list. Instead I would suggest to put a set of screenshots either on a separate page or on the 'Download' site. +1 for a separate page. Phil ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-virt] kmod-kvm-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5-72-1.x86_64.rpm outdated, need on for 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5
Michael Schenck wrote: CentOS Virt, I'm looking for an RPM for the kmod-kvm processor specific modules (kvm-intel or kvm-amd). I've been using L. Farkas's repository, but after the recent kernel updates, I'm out of luck. delete all kvm packages and then install the new ones kmod-kvm-82-1.x86_64.rpm, kvm-82-1.x86_64.rpm (this two is enough) -- Levente Si vis pacem para bellum! ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] kmod-kvm-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5-72-1.x86_64.rpm outdated, need on for 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5
etherboot-roms-kvm-5.4.4-7.x86_64 is also required, if you keep a local repository On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Farkas Levente lfar...@lfarkas.org wrote: Michael Schenck wrote: CentOS Virt, I'm looking for an RPM for the kmod-kvm processor specific modules (kvm-intel or kvm-amd). I've been using L. Farkas's repository, but after the recent kernel updates, I'm out of luck. delete all kvm packages and then install the new ones kmod-kvm-82-1.x86_64.rpm, kvm-82-1.x86_64.rpm (this two is enough) -- Levente Si vis pacem para bellum! ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] kmod-kvm-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5-72-1.x86_64.rpm outdated, need on for 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5
Michael Schenck wrote: etherboot-roms-kvm-5.4.4-7.x86_64 is also required, if you keep a local repository On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Farkas Levente lfar...@lfarkas.org mailto:lfar...@lfarkas.org wrote: Michael Schenck wrote: CentOS Virt, I'm looking for an RPM for the kmod-kvm processor specific modules (kvm-intel or kvm-amd). I've been using L. Farkas's repository, but after the recent kernel updates, I'm out of luck. delete all kvm packages and then install the new ones kmod-kvm-82-1.x86_64.rpm, kvm-82-1.x86_64.rpm (this two is enough) they are also in my repo:-) -- Levente Si vis pacem para bellum! ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] kmod-kvm-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5-72-1.x86_64.rpm outdated, need on for 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5
Oh, I grabbed it, but figured for the sake of the list, I'd add that. Thanks yet again, you're a life saver - Michael Schenck On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Farkas Levente lfar...@lfarkas.org wrote: Michael Schenck wrote: etherboot-roms-kvm-5.4.4-7.x86_64 is also required, if you keep a local repository On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Farkas Levente lfar...@lfarkas.org mailto:lfar...@lfarkas.org wrote: Michael Schenck wrote: CentOS Virt, I'm looking for an RPM for the kmod-kvm processor specific modules (kvm-intel or kvm-amd). I've been using L. Farkas's repository, but after the recent kernel updates, I'm out of luck. delete all kvm packages and then install the new ones kmod-kvm-82-1.x86_64.rpm, kvm-82-1.x86_64.rpm (this two is enough) they are also in my repo:-) -- Levente Si vis pacem para bellum! ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
[CentOS-es] mover virtuales con Xen y optimizar espacio
Buenas gente, les comento que estoy moviendo maquinas virtuales con Xen, que tengo instaladas en diferentes particiones de discos. estoy pudiendo moverlas en frio de un servidor a otro sin inconvenientes. Para ello uso el comando dd, lo que me permite crear un archivo de imagen a partir de una particion, moverlo, y despues clonar ese archivo en otra particion y poder levantar la maquina virtual. El problema que tengo, que no le he podido encontrar la vuelta, es cuando la particion de destino es mas grande que el archivo, como puedo hacer para que ese espacio de sobra quede como espacio libre en la nueva maquina virtual. Osea, supongamos tengo una maquina virtual sobre una partición de 30 Gigas, pero que dentro del equipo virtual tengo 10 ocupados, esta al generar la imagen con dd, me genera un archivo de 30 gigas, me gustaría que me genere un archivo de 10 gigas. y luego al copiarlo a otro servidor y con dd nuevamente clonar la imagen en una partición de 50 gigas, me gustaría que la maquina virtual levantada quedara con sus 10 gigas ocupados y 40 gigas libres. Se entiende lo que pretendo hacer?? no se si es posible, ya que no he encontrado mucha información, salu2 Carlitos ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] correos usados
Hola Renato, Si yo ttb, estoy apunto de hacer eso pero necesito una maquina para realizar al menos una prueba antes de ponerlo directo en el servidor pues y no la tengo ya toy buscando una aunq sea voy a traer una de mi casa xD..bueno pero te keria pedir un favor haber si tu me puedes apoyar ps no en esto. Talvez, tu tengas info que me pueda servir. Gracias.. Renato Covarrubias Romero escribió: El Lunes, 29 de Diciembre de 2008, wilder deza deza escribió: [mensaje en html] Primero, no envien mensajes en HTML... son poco agradables de leer para quienes no leemos HTML fluidamente. :P Ahora bien, que un usuario se envie correos a si mismo no quiere decir que el cliente sea el que tiene un virus. ¿Qué dicen los logs del servidor de correo? Recuerda que el protocolo SMTP identifica el destinatario y el remitente original como parte del protocolo... y no como el From y el To que se envía en el mensaje del correo (DATA). Yo intentaria instalando greylist, spamassassin y alguna otra cosa por ahi, que te ayude a filtrar o clasificar el correo SPAM, evitarlo y bloquearlo. Saludos, y éxito! PD: ¡¡Feliz Año Nuevo!! ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] correos usados
El Martes, 30 de Diciembre de 2008, wilder deza deza escribió: Hola Renato, Si yo ttb, estoy apunto de hacer eso pero necesito una maquina para realizar al menos una prueba antes de ponerlo directo en el servidor pues y no la tengo ya toy buscando una aunq sea voy a traer una de mi casa xD..bueno pero te keria pedir un favor haber si tu me puedes apoyar ps no en esto. Talvez, tu tengas info que me pueda servir. Y con una máquina virtual? xen es tu amigo. Con las preguntas adecuadas, obtendrás respuestas adecuadas. :) Saludos! -- Renato Covarrubias Romero counter.li.org #399677 rcovarru [at] alumnos.inf.utfsm.clhttp://rnt.bla.cl Estudiante Ingenieria Civil Informatica, Casa Central, UTFSM. Coordinador Laboratorio de Computación, Casa Central. ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] correos usados
On Monday 29 December 2008 07:02:00 pm wilder deza wrote: De: cvelasq...@esto.com [mailto:cvelasq...@esto.com] Enviado el: lunes, 29 de diciembre de 2008 16:37 Para: cvelasq...@esto.com Asunto: Chase away your bedroom blues Importancia: Alta Tengo el mismo problema, y se pasaba coladito por mi proxy anti-spam (assp), después de unos arreglos estoy casi frenandolos todos. los correos no son enviados desde los clientes, simplemente el campo from y el to en el data es modificado ya que viendo los logs de mi sistema los correos salen desde distintas ips, al parecer en un troyano que usa maquinas zombies para enviar los correos. si tienes algún filtro spam que use expresiones regulares con esta puedes frenar ese correo: http://[a-z]*\.[a-z]*\.cn Saludos! pd: ese correo tiene enfermo a muchos... -- César Sepúlveda B. Digitalmente (56 2)233 20 28 ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] mover virtuales con Xen y optimizar espacio
Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Carlos Moreira carlos.more...@imcanelones.gub.uy wrote: Buenas gente, les comento que estoy moviendo maquinas virtuales con Xen, que tengo instaladas en diferentes particiones de discos. estoy pudiendo moverlas en frio de un servidor a otro sin inconvenientes. Para ello uso el comando dd, lo que me permite crear un archivo de imagen a partir de una particion, moverlo, y despues clonar ese archivo en otra particion y poder levantar la maquina virtual. El problema que tengo, que no le he podido encontrar la vuelta, es cuando la particion de destino es mas yo lo que hago es un star de todo el disco, y entonces abro ese star en el nuevo disco ... así da igual si es grande o peque... realmente me ha pasado un par de veces y el dd te deja el nuevo disco del tamaño del viejo y no le he hecho mucho swing a resolverlo, con star lo logro saludos! epe ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
[CentOS-es] CentOS Consumidor
Hola Lista... A pesar de presentar los problemas que les he pedido consejo y ayuda en los correos anteriores, estoy presentando otro. Existe alguna forma de optimizar CentOS, ya que lo estoy utilizando como estacion de trabajo, con una pc Pentuim IV, a 3.2Ghz, un disco SATA de 80 Gb, 256Mb DDR2, motherboard Asus P5GD1-VM y lo siento que queda pesado, muchisimo mas que el XP que tenia instalado con unos cuantos servicios y aplicaciones instaladas que en este momento no tengo corriendo. Alguien puede darme alguna instruccion o donde encontrar manuales... Uso CentOS5.2. Feliz Navidad y muchas gracias... Yoinier. ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] CentOS Consumidor
Algunas opciones - Si usas aplicaciones que hacen mucho uso de archivos en disco te conviene verificar que tu disco está siendo reconocido como SATA y no está en modo Legacy, Compatible o IDE - Puede ser conveniente chequear la salud del disco con SMART, corriendo smartctl -a /dev/sda para ver si no hay exceso de relocalización de sectores u otros problemas que demoren la entrada/salida de disco - Controlar qué procesos están haciendo más uso de tu CPU y de tu memoria (con el comando top por ejemplo), y ver si puedes evitar correrlos, o reemplazarlos por otros. - Verificar si no estás haciendo uso de espacio de swap (256MB pueden ser pocos para algunas aplicaciones y eso hace que entre a funcionar el mecanismo de paginación hacia disco). El comando free te dice si estás haciendo swap al disco (mira la cifra de Swap Used). - De acuerdo con el análisis anterior, deshabilitar servicios que no uses (chkconfig XXX off) - Si estás paginando, puede evitarse corriendo menos aplicaciones a la vez, o reemplazando algunas aplicaciones por otras más livianas. El último recurso sería agregar memoria. - Algunos reemplazos interesantes pueden estar especialmente en la zona de aplicaciones gráficas (en lugar de Gnome, que es muy pesado, XFCE o Blackbox/Fluxbox/Openbox... hay decenas para elegir; Abiword en lugar de OpenOffice, etc) - Otra opción interesante, si tienes otros equipos Linux que controles, es distribuir las tareas. Puedes correr procesos cualesquiera en otro equipo (usando disco, memoria y CPU de ese otro equipo) y manejar la interfaz desde el tuyo. El sistema X de gráficos lo permite por diseño, desde siempre. Si necesitas más ayuda pregúntanos. Muy buenas fiestas y un muy feliz cincuentenario! -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS] cluster - ip address lost when service stopped
Jay, thanks for your answer, but there was a little misunderstanding: the ip 10.0.181.4 is associated to the service and it's correct it goes away when service is stopped ( this is what I want, exactly like your environment ). My problem is that ip 10.0.181.41, that was the original ip associated to interface bound0 of the node AREA041, goes away too when service is stopped, and I don't understand why. I suppose this is some issue related to fencing, as I don't use any fence device but I assign GFS resource internally to the service ( GFS share is mounted only when service start and only on the node hosting this service ): do you think this is a correct design ? Tks Fabio -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jay Leafey Sent: lunedì 29 dicembre 2008 21:41 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] cluster - ip address lost when service stopped Fabio Macchi wrote: Hi Gowrishankar, this problem seems to be related to cluster, not to bonding: bonding is working correctly, anyway I've tryied a test removing bonding, and I experience the same problem directly on interface eth0. This is my cluster.conf ?xml version=1.0 ? cluster alias=cluster01 config_version=54 name=cluster01 fence_daemon clean_start=1 post_fail_delay=0 post_join_delay=30/ clusternodes clusternode name=AREA041 nodeid=2 votes=1 fence/ /clusternode clusternode name=AREA042 nodeid=3 votes=1 fence/ /clusternode /clusternodes cman expected_votes=1 two_node=1/ fencedevices/ rm failoverdomains failoverdomain name=httpd failover domain ordered=0 restricted=1 failoverdomainnode name=AREA041 priority=1/ /failoverdomain /failoverdomains resources ip address=10.0.181.3 monitor_link=1/ /resources service autostart=0 domain=httpd failover domain name=Apache recovery=disable script file=/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd name=script httpd/ ip ref=10.0.181.3/ /service service autostart=0 domain=httpd failover domain name=Service Mail recovery=disable script file=/etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner name=MailScanner/ clusterfs device=/dev/DATI_MAIL/DATI_MAIL force_unmount=1 fsid=5845 fstype=gfs2 mountpoint=/dati_mail name=Share_dati_mail options=/ ip address=10.0.181.4 monitor_link=1/ /service /rm /cluster Many thanks From what I can tell, the behaviour you are noticing is consistent with your cluster.conf file. Since you have made the IP addresses part of the service definitions, the IP would go away when the associated service is stopped. If the service moved to another node, however, the IP would be enabled on the host to which the service was moved. If you want the IP addresses to be independent of the service state, then add them using files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts to define the alias addresses and remove them from your service definitions. See /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt for details on how to set up the alias addresses. I'm doing something similar with IP addresses in a cluster, but I WANT the IP address to migrate to the target host when a service is moved from one node in the cluster to another. I have the IP address resources tied to the individual services to make that happen. Hope that helps! -- Jay Leafey - Memphis, TN jay.lea...@mindless.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Upgrade from 4.7 to 5.2 problem with udev and ssl
Thomas Dukes tdu...@sc.rr.com wrote: Got cocky and decided to upgrade from from 4.7 to 5.2. Have a couple problems I can't figure out. Was that upgrade using anaconda or yum? Hadn't you thought of backing up and doing a clean install of 5.2? Regards, Vandaman. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] system config report
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, David Miller wrote: Long ago when I was an AIX admin we had a script we ran every 6 months or so and it created what we called the System Book. It had every possible configuration option. While acknowledging that on a whole it was overkill documentation, if we ever had to rebuild the systems we knew *exactly* how the old one was set up to compare it to if we had problems. This is funny, we created a similar thing at a previous company I worked. It was written in Perl and called sysbook (for System Book). It also outputted a documented DocBook document that was converted to HTML and available to all system engineers. I'm looking to do something similar for my CentOS boxes. Or better yet, see if someone has already done something similar. I've poked around google and sourceforge on and off for a couple of months but haven't found much. The discussion lately about 'hwinfo' jogged my memory. Anyone know of something like this? A template, even? An old project that hasn't been updated but could be brought up to date? I wrote dconf in memory of the sysbook project. The aim here was not to create indexed, human-readable documentation, but rather a file that contains all hardware, software and latent configuration. That allows you to backup a system's configuration, diff 2 configurations (whether that is from 2 different timestamps, or 2 different identical systems is irrelevant) and helps comaintaining systems (since it can send changes via email or allows to trace back in time when something was modified and by whom). This is perfect for support issues, as you can go back to a customer and tell him that you did not leave the system behind like that and point out the individual changes they have made to their configuration (even hardware changes). You can find dconf at: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dconf/ It can use some love of system administrators to complete the database of configurations files and commands. I also have less extensive configurations file for AIX, Solaris, Debian and SLES that can use some love... -- -- dag wieers, d...@centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] DNS resolver over IPv6
Kai Schaetzl a écrit : Robert Moskowitz wrote on Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:21:48 -0500: nslookup is deprecated. it's no more deprecated (should we say: it is re-precated? :). I don't have a pointer right now (but run it and you should no more get a warning...). Did you try with host? May give you the same result, but, well .. I setup /etc/resolv.conf as shown at: http://docsun.cites.uiuc.edu/sun_docs/C/solaris_9/SUNWaadm/SYSADV5/p13.html (the only hit I got on configuring resolv.conf for an IPv6 DNS server). You used ::1 then? Kai ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Upgrade from 4.7 to 5.2 problem with udev and ssl
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Vandaman vandaman2002...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Thomas Dukes tdu...@sc.rr.com wrote: Got cocky and decided to upgrade from from 4.7 to 5.2. Have a couple problems I can't figure out. Was that upgrade using anaconda or yum? Hadn't you thought of backing up and doing a clean install of 5.2? I believe backing up and then doing a clean install, between major releases, like from 4 to 5, is what Upstream and the CentOS developers recommend. Trying to upgrade between major releases, frequently becomes problematic. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Solved - Re: DNS resolver over IPv6
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I have a Centos server that is running BIND and has IPv6 global addresses.
I have entered a number of records into this copy of BIND in a
local view and zone (tld is htt).
Over IPv4, I have no trouble with nslookup ('nslookup - 127.0.0.1' and
'nslookup - 192.168.128.55'). I get the records back.
But if I try to use the IPv6 address of the system I get a time out.
Both from nslookup and from ping6.
I setup /etc/resolv.conf as shown at:
http://docsun.cites.uiuc.edu/sun_docs/C/solaris_9/SUNWaadm/SYSADV5/p13.html
(the only hit I got on configuring resolv.conf for an IPv6 DNS server).
I have turned off both ip6tables and iptables so it is not a firewall issue.
Even 'nslookup - ipv6 addr' does not work. I seem to recall a problem
with nslookup supporting udp over IPv6, but ping6 should not have that
problem.
This is all on the single system running BIND. I figure i got to get
that working before worrying about other systems!
Per http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/hints-daemons-bind.html
I found out that I had to add to the options section in named.conf:
listen-on-v6 { any; };
It is obvious that the line:
query-source-v6 port 53;
Was not what is needed.
Grumble, grumble.
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Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 7:24 PM, in message 49596a48.4000...@bradbury.edu.hk, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: I agree in general with most every opinion. Especially Davide's comment above. Very good analogy Open Solaris may be your best choice. I would suggest you do pay attention to Solaris itself. It's free (as in beer) from Sun it works. Except for patches unless you want to browse Sun's website regularly to download them. You also get more hardware support on OpenSolaris and support from Sun for OpenSolaris but I suppose the latter option is probably better done with Solaris 10 + support which includes access to patch management. Unless you like the way things are done over here in Linux land which is one tool to manage them all and not one tool to install packages and another tool to install patches to packages. Agreed. Only the OP knows the criticality of his data whether or not he needs support at what level. The root answer is that if he wants to use ZFS (which is a *good* choice) he should use some flavor of Solaris Tony Placilla aplaci...@jhu.edu Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Upgrade from 4.7 to 5.2 problem with udev and ssl
Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Vandaman vandaman2002...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Thomas Dukes tdu...@sc.rr.com wrote: Got cocky and decided to upgrade from from 4.7 to 5.2. Have a couple problems I can't figure out. Was that upgrade using anaconda or yum? Hadn't you thought of backing up and doing a clean install of 5.2? I believe backing up and then doing a clean install, between major releases, like from 4 to 5, is what Upstream and the CentOS developers recommend. Trying to upgrade between major releases, frequently becomes problematic. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I got the firefox issue resolved. Here's the ssl error from firefox when I try to connect securely to webmin: Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to palmettodomains.com:x. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. (Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long) I regenerated a new certificate, but that didn't help. Thanks!! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] xorg-x11-drv-nouveau for CentOS?
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Frank Cox Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 12:59 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] xorg-x11-drv-nouveau for CentOS? On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:53:09 -0800 MHR wrote: What's wrong with the nvidia drivers? 1. They can introduce problems that nobody can deal with in any way. And the one the OP describes as Noveau isn't a problem?? They don't even know if the after the driver is compiled and installed from SOURCE if it WILL WORK! I be Expletive if I would put on on a test machine. Your aware I guess bad code can kill a piece of hardware? 2. They could be discontinued by nvidia at any time. For that fact the same goes for any Open Source Project there is. It could be here today and gone tomorrow so what's the point in that??? 3. They add another unnecessary layer of complexity to an already complex system. That depends on what one calls Complex??? Stable desktop Nvidia or the dkms versions. There's the first three issues that I can think of -- I'm sure there are more but that should be enough to get you started. It doesn't get me started good yet it's early... JohnStanley ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] DNS resolver over IPv6
Mouss wrote on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:52:08 +0100: (but run it and you should no more get a warning...). Yeah, almost first thing I noticed when moving from Suse to CentOS. I attributed this rather to some error, though. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] IPv6 forwarding and ip6tables
I am running multiple IPv6 subnets here in my testbed. My IPv6 'router' is a Centos box with IPv6forwarding turned on. It is also my RADVD server (over multiple VLans), and Miredo server/relay. I thought I had a simple ip6table setup that protected the box and let it forward. Well I am wrong. I got my previous DNS over IPv6 working on the DNS server, then tried to get it working from another box. After a couple hours fighting with it, I finally figured out that my Centos IPv6 router was rejecting the IPv6DNS queries, not forwarding them. I turned off ip6tables and the DNS lookups worked just fine. So I thought, well Shorewall6 beta is out, let's go with it already. I check out the shorewall discussions and discover you need at least the 2.6.25 kernel for Shorewall6. When I mentioned my dilemma, I was told that 2.6.18 doesn't support stateful IPv6 firewalling at all! Just great.. When is that Centos 6 going to happen :( Anyway, the challenge for now: What do I put into ip6tables so that any IPv6 traffic that comes in any of the vlans on eth1 can go out any of the vlans on eth1? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] How to change an executable into a directory
I just discovered that a couple of files on my system are ELF executables when they should be directories. How do I change a file into a directory? I don't think I've ever run into this one before Thanks mhr CentOS 5.2 w/all updates ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] xorg-x11-drv-nouveau for CentOS?
John wrote on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:05:24 -0500: It doesn't get me started good yet it's early... Nevertheless, I see that you have now started to use normal quoting. Many thanks for that and good morning :-) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] How to change an executable into a directory
MHR wrote: I just discovered that a couple of files on my system are ELF executables when they should be directories. How do I change a file into a directory? I don't think I've ever run into this one before mv filename filename.bck mkdir filename Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] How to change an executable into a directory
Mhr wrote on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:57:11 -0800: I just discovered that a couple of files on my system are ELF executables when they should be directories. How do I change a file into a directory? I don't think I've ever run into this one before I think you should really explain that a bit. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Anaconda crash during Centos 5.2 installation.
Hi, I'm trying to install Centos 5.2 on an old machine in graphical mode (to use LVM) but anaconda crash. I made several tries with various installation resquest (the last is Server, Customize after installation) unfortunately, it's reproductible: Traceback (most recent call first): File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py, line 42, in newFunc raise Errors.RepoError File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py, line 596, in searchPrco results.extend(self.searchFiles(name)) File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py, line 40, in newFunc return func(*args, **kwargs) File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py, line 648, in searchProvides return self.searchPrco(name, provides) File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py, line 399, in _computeAggregateListResult sackResult = apply(method, args) File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py, line 267, in searchProvides return self._computeAggregateListResult(searchProvides, name) File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py, line 149, in whatProvides pkgs = self.pkgSack.searchProvides(name) File /tmp/treedir.8196/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py, line 388, in _provideToPkg for po in self.whatProvides(r, f, v): File /tmp/treedir.8196/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py, line 461, in tsCheck dep = self._provideToPkg(req) File /tmp/treedir.8196/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py, line 429, in resolveDeps unresolved = self.tsCheck(unresolved) File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py, line 585, in buildTransaction (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps() File /tmp/treedir.8196/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py, line 1265, in doPostSelection (code, msgs) = self.ayum.buildTransaction() File /tmp/treedir.8196/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda/backend.py, line 177, in doPostSelection return anaconda.backend.doPostSelection(anaconda) File /usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py, line 201, in moveStep rc = stepFunc(self.anaconda) File /usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py, line 124, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File /usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py, line 1018, in nextClicked self.anaconda.dispatch.gotoNext() RepoError: None Can somebody tell me where is the problem? Should I have to report a bug? On Centos Mantis? On RH Bugzilla? Regards, Alain -- Les pages de manuel Linux en français http://manpagesfr.free.fr/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] How to change an executable into a directory
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com wrote: Mhr wrote on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:57:11 -0800: I just discovered that a couple of files on my system are ELF executables when they should be directories. How do I change a file into a directory? I don't think I've ever run into this one before I think you should really explain that a bit. Yes, quite. I save a fair number of web pages (receipts, bill payments, etc.) for what should be obvious reasons. Usually, these come down as an html file and a directory (of sub-html files). I have two files that correspond to two html files in the right file name format that seem as though they should be the _files directories, but they are ELF files: [mrich...@swordfish mhrdocs]$ file *_files chv81128_files: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped chX81125_files: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped [mrich...@swordfish mhrdocs]$ ll *_files -r--r--r-- 1 mrichter RnD 596460 May 29 2008 chv81128_files -r--r--r-- 1 mrichter RnD 43756 May 29 2008 chX81125_files These correspond to two html files which do not display correctly (because the files that are supposed to be in those directories are not because the directories appear to be executables. I don't really think I want to try running them So, is there a way to change a file into a directory? Or am I crazy? Thanks. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Anaconda crash during Centos 5.2 installation.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Alain PORTAL alain.por...@free.fr wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Centos 5.2 on an old machine in graphical mode (to use LVM) but anaconda crash. I made several tries with various installation resquest (the last is Server, Customize after installation) unfortunately, it's reproductible: You need to supply more information about this old machine - that could be the problem mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] How to change an executable into a directory
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:36 AM, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, quite. I save a fair number of web pages (receipts, bill payments, etc.) for what should be obvious reasons. Usually, these come down as an html file and a directory (of sub-html files). I have two files that correspond to two html files in the right file name format that seem as though they should be the _files directories, but they are ELF files: [mrich...@swordfish mhrdocs]$ file *_files chv81128_files: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped chX81125_files: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped [mrich...@swordfish mhrdocs]$ ll *_files -r--r--r-- 1 mrichter RnD 596460 May 29 2008 chv81128_files -r--r--r-- 1 mrichter RnD 43756 May 29 2008 chX81125_files These correspond to two html files which do not display correctly (because the files that are supposed to be in those directories are not because the directories appear to be executables. I don't really think I want to try running them So, is there a way to change a file into a directory? Or am I crazy? Thanks. mhr PS: I put them on another machine and ran them as binaries - both terminated with segmentation faults, and gdb shows no backtrace: #0 0x0001 in ?? () So, . . . ??? :-) mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] How to change an executable into a directory
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:41:12 -0800 MHR wrote: I save a fair number of web pages (receipts, bill payments, etc.) for what should be obvious reasons. What are you using to do the saving from? Usually, these come down as an html file and a directory (of sub-html files). I have two files that correspond to two html files in the right file name format that seem as though they should be the _files directories, but they are ELF files: What do you see if you view the contents with less? less chv81128_files -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com DRY CLEANER BUSINESS FOR SALE ~ http://www.canadadrycleanerforsale.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] system config report
Thanks Barry. Yeah that looks pretty close to what I'm looking for. Funny how that slipped by me. Putting combinations of system audit report config etc don't make for useful google results. And here I should have tried apropos. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Barry Brimer li...@brimer.org wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, David Miller wrote: Long ago when I was an AIX admin we had a script we ran every 6 months or so and it created what we called the System Book. It had every possible configuration option. While acknowledging that on a whole it was overkill documentation, if we ever had to rebuild the systems we knew *exactly* how the old one was set up to compare it to if we had problems. I'm looking to do something similar for my CentOS boxes. Or better yet, see if someone has already done something similar. I've poked around google and sourceforge on and off for a couple of months but haven't found much. The discussion lately about 'hwinfo' jogged my memory. Anyone know of something like this? A template, even? An old project that hasn't been updated but could be brought up to date? man sosreport man sysreport ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Anaconda crash during Centos 5.2 installation.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Alain PORTAL alain.por...@free.fr wrote: I'm trying to install Centos 5.2 on an old machine in graphical mode (to use LVM) but anaconda crash. I made several tries with various installation resquest (the last is Server, Customize after installation) unfortunately, it's reproductible: As Mark (mhr) mentioned, it might not run on that box. I suggest you download the Live CD for CentOS 5.2 and test it with that. If it doesn't run on the Live CD, it probably is not going to run on that box. GL ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] How to change an executable into a directory
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of MHR Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 1:41 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to change an executable into a directory On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:36 AM, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, quite. I save a fair number of web pages (receipts, bill payments, etc.) for what should be obvious reasons. Usually, these come down as an html file and a directory (of sub-html files). I have two files that correspond to two html files in the right file name format that seem as though they should be the _files directories, but they are ELF files: [mrich...@swordfish mhrdocs]$ file *_files chv81128_files: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped chX81125_files: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped [mrich...@swordfish mhrdocs]$ ll *_files -r--r--r-- 1 mrichter RnD 596460 May 29 2008 chv81128_files -r--r--r-- 1 mrichter RnD 43756 May 29 2008 chX81125_files These correspond to two html files which do not display correctly (because the files that are supposed to be in those directories are not because the directories appear to be executables. I don't really think I want to try running them So, is there a way to change a file into a directory? Or am I crazy? Thanks. mhr PS: I put them on another machine and ran them as binaries - both terminated with segmentation faults, and gdb shows no backtrace: #0 0x0001 in ?? () So, . . . ??? :-) Maybe the file Header is Corrupted or you have the wrong file association with then??? Did you try opening them with a browser exclusivly? Is the directory marked executable? ls -l Maybe they were saved in the wrong format? Just a thought of explanations? JohnStanley ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] xorg-x11-drv-nouveau for CentOS?
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Kai Schaetzl Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 1:07 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] xorg-x11-drv-nouveau for CentOS? John wrote on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:05:24 -0500: It doesn't get me started good yet it's early... Nevertheless, I see that you have now started to use normal quoting. Many thanks for that and good morning :-) Kai Don't hold your breath to long lol JohnStanley ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] system config report
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Dag Wieers d...@centos.org wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, David Miller wrote: Long ago when I was an AIX admin we had a script we ran every 6 months or so and it created what we called the System Book. It had every possible configuration option. While acknowledging that on a whole it was overkill documentation, if we ever had to rebuild the systems we knew *exactly* how the old one was set up to compare it to if we had problems. This is funny, we created a similar thing at a previous company I worked. It was written in Perl and called sysbook (for System Book). It also outputted a documented DocBook document that was converted to HTML and available to all system engineers. I'm looking to do something similar for my CentOS boxes. Or better yet, see if someone has already done something similar. I've poked around google and sourceforge on and off for a couple of months but haven't found much. The discussion lately about 'hwinfo' jogged my memory. Anyone know of something like this? A template, even? An old project that hasn't been updated but could be brought up to date? I wrote dconf in memory of the sysbook project. The aim here was not to create indexed, human-readable documentation, but rather a file that contains all hardware, software and latent configuration. That allows you to backup a system's configuration, diff 2 configurations (whether that is from 2 different timestamps, or 2 different identical systems is irrelevant) and helps comaintaining systems (since it can send changes via email or allows to trace back in time when something was modified and by whom). This is perfect for support issues, as you can go back to a customer and tell him that you did not leave the system behind like that and point out the individual changes they have made to their configuration (even hardware changes). You can find dconf at: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dconf/ It can use some love of system administrators to complete the database of configurations files and commands. I also have less extensive configurations file for AIX, Solaris, Debian and SLES that can use some love... -- -- dag wieers, d...@centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thanks - I'll check it out. Looks like sysreport / sosreport will do a lot of what I'm looking for, but I'm always looking for things like this. Things that help me sleep better at night. Our System Book script was written in perl as well, with the output in LaTeX markup so we could generate a pdf for it as we were the only UNIX guys in a Windows shop. They were RS/6000 M80s with SSA trays and boy was that book thick when we printed it out. Ah, the good old days Dave ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] How to change an executable into a directory
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:36 PM, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: snip I save a fair number of web pages (receipts, bill payments, etc.) for what should be obvious reasons. Usually, these come down as an html file and a directory (of sub-html files). I have two files that correspond to two html files in the right file name format that seem as though they should be the _files directories, but they are ELF files: [mrich...@swordfish mhrdocs]$ file *_files chv81128_files: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 I sometimes Save web pages also (using Mozilla Firefox) and I have never seen that. I wonder if it has something to do with the actual web pages that were saved, that are in some strange format you didn't notice, when you were at that web site. Interesting that it has the stuff about ELF, LSB, Intel 80386, etc., which certainly looks very strange. Is there any way you can go back to that web site and Save the web page again? GL ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] How to change an executable into a directory
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:54 AM, John jse...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe the file Header is Corrupted or you have the wrong file association with then??? Possibly, and I don't know how to do that other than a binary edit of the files (which _I_ didn't do...). Did you try opening them with a browser exclusivly? I get The file chv81128_files is of type application/octet-stream and SeaMonkey does not know how to handle this file type Is the directory marked executable? No. ls -l This was in my previous post which you quoted - they're -r--r--r. Maybe they were saved in the wrong format? Could be, although I have saved hundreds of web pages like this and these are the first two to show up in this bizarre state. Just a thought of explanations? Thanks. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Anaconda crash during Centos 5.2 installation.
Le mardi 30 décembre 2008, MHR a écrit : You need to supply more information about this old machine - that could be the problem What do you need as information? I'm not in from of this machine tonight, the only thing I remember is it has 512MB RAM and 40GB HDD. Regards, Alain -- Les pages de manuel Linux en français http://manpagesfr.free.fr/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] How to change an executable into a directory
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: I sometimes Save web pages also (using Mozilla Firefox) and I have never seen that. I wonder if it has something to do with the actual web pages that were saved, that are in some strange format you didn't notice, when you were at that web site. Interesting that it has the stuff about ELF, LSB, Intel 80386, etc., which certainly looks very strange. Is there any way you can go back to that web site and Save the web page again? GL Not until the next time I pay those bills! :-) The other strange thing is that I have several saved pages from that bill pay service, and these aren't even the most recent, but all the others, before and after, came down just fine. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Anaconda crash during Centos 5.2 installation.
Le mardi 30 décembre 2008, Lanny Marcus a écrit : As Mark (mhr) mentioned, it might not run on that box. I suggest you download the Live CD for CentOS 5.2 and test it with that. If it doesn't run on the Live CD, it probably is not going to run on that I didn't think about that. Thanks. I'll make a try tomorrow. Regards, Alain -- Les pages de manuel Linux en français http://manpagesfr.free.fr/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] How to change an executable into a directory
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 10:36 -0800, MHR wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com wrote: Mhr wrote on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:57:11 -0800: I just discovered that a couple of files on my system are ELF executables when they should be directories. How do I change a file into a directory? I don't think I've ever run into this one before I think you should really explain that a bit. Yes, quite. I save a fair number of web pages (receipts, bill payments, etc.) for what should be obvious reasons. Usually, these come down as an html file and a directory (of sub-html files). I have two files that correspond to two html files in the right file name format that seem as though they should be the _files directories, but they are ELF files: [mrich...@swordfish mhrdocs]$ file *_files chv81128_files: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped chX81125_files: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped Since file works by examining a few initial bytes/lines, it can be fooled. You might want to examine them by strings or, if they really are executables, readelf. This might give a clue as to what went wrong. I know when I save web pages a related directory is created that contains images and whatnot that are referenced by the page. I presume this is what you expected? AFAIK there is no way to make a directory out of a file on Linux (unlike real UNIX(TM) which has standard i-nodes regardless of file or directory being mapped). How did it happen? I could only guess that something ran removed the directory and put a file there or something in the save process went awry and made a file, possibly the real files concatenated. If you can see the structure of the file, maybe some kind of manual edit will let you break out the files. If there's images of various types in there, I wouldn't bet on it. [mrich...@swordfish mhrdocs]$ ll *_files -r--r--r-- 1 mrichter RnD 596460 May 29 2008 chv81128_files -r--r--r-- 1 mrichter RnD 43756 May 29 2008 chX81125_files See what readelf says about those files. These correspond to two html files which do not display correctly (because the files that are supposed to be in those directories are not because the directories appear to be executables. I don't really think I want to try running them So, is there a way to change a file into a directory? Or am I crazy? Not mutually exclusive are they? ;-) No way that I know of. The rename, mkdir, manual breakout is the only possible way I can envision ATM. Thanks. mhr snip sig stuff HTH -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] How to change an executable into a directory
snip Having read the rest of the posts, maybe you can recover the critical pieces by going to the bill site again. Most that I use allow a payment history display. If what you're looking for is a saved confirmation of you activity, maybe that will do. Many of those I use show the post date and confirmation number and amount. Maybe that will suffice? Remember to remove/rename those problem files before doing it. HTH -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] system config report
David Miller wrote: I wrote dconf in memory of the sysbook project. The aim here was not to create indexed, human-readable documentation, but rather a file that contains all hardware, software and latent configuration. That allows you to backup a system's configuration, diff 2 configurations (whether that is from 2 different timestamps, or 2 different identical systems is irrelevant) and helps comaintaining systems (since it can send changes via email or allows to trace back in time when something was modified and by whom). This is perfect for support issues, as you can go back to a customer and tell him that you did not leave the system behind like that and point out the individual changes they have made to their configuration (even hardware changes). You can find dconf at: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dconf/ It can use some love of system administrators to complete the database of configurations files and commands. I also have less extensive configurations file for AIX, Solaris, Debian and SLES that can use some love... Thanks - I'll check it out. Looks like sysreport / sosreport will do a lot of what I'm looking for, but I'm always looking for things like this. Things that help me sleep better at night. Our System Book script was written in perl as well, with the output in LaTeX markup so we could generate a pdf for it as we were the only UNIX guys in a Windows shop. They were RS/6000 M80s with SSA trays and boy was that book thick when we printed it out. Ah, the good old days Ocsinventory-NG (http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/) has agents for linux and windows boxes that periodically report their hardware and software configuration to a server that maintains it in a database. The companion GLPI (more extensive inventory) program will also track the history of changes. However, it only tracks the installed rpm packages, not local configuration changes other than windows registry settings. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] How to change an executable into a directory
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:15 AM, William L. Maltby centos4b...@triad.rr.com wrote: snip Having read the rest of the posts, maybe you can recover the critical pieces by going to the bill site again. Most that I use allow a payment history display. If what you're looking for is a saved confirmation of you activity, maybe that will do. Many of those I use show the post date and confirmation number and amount. Maybe that will suffice? I'll try that. Remember to remove/rename those problem files before doing it. But of course! mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Anaconda crash during Centos 5.2 installation.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Alain PORTAL alain.por...@free.fr wrote: Le mardi 30 décembre 2008, MHR a écrit : You need to supply more information about this old machine - that could be the problem What do you need as information? I'm not in from of this machine tonight, the only thing I remember is it has 512MB RAM and 40GB HDD. That is not the problem. My box has 512 MB RAM and a 40 GB HD and I am running CentOS 5.2 (32 bit). It may be something else, such as the motherboard. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Xen DomU console connection
Dom0 OS=CentOS-5.2_X86_64 Dom1 OS=CentOS-5.2_X86_64 I have a desktop machine running the xen kernel, Dom0. I have created a virtual machine on that host, Dom1. From my console session on Dom0 I can open a GUI console for Dom1 but I cannot resize the actual screen area. I can make the virtual console window larger but the screen stays centered at the same size while the margins increase in width. I would like to simply switch my entire desktop display from the Dom0 to Dom1 (together with the keyboard and mouse of course) and then back to Dom0 again when I am done. I suspect that this is not possible, but if it is then surely someone here will know. If I cannot actually switch desktops between domains then is there another technique available to accomplish much the same thing? I would like to use Dom1 for software development using visual editors and such. Running these inside the virtual console window is not workable, mainly due to the limited display size and the erratic behaviour of the mouse. Regards, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] How to change an executable into a directory
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 11:02 -0800, MHR wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:54 AM, John jse...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe the file Header is Corrupted or you have the wrong file association with then??? Possibly, and I don't know how to do that other than a binary edit of the files (which _I_ didn't do...). Did you try opening them with a browser exclusivly? I get The file chv81128_files is of type application/octet-stream and SeaMonkey does not know how to handle this file type Is the directory marked executable? No. ls -l This was in my previous post which you quoted - they're -r--r--r. Maybe they were saved in the wrong format? Could be, although I have saved hundreds of web pages like this and these are the first two to show up in this bizarre state. Just a thought of explanations? You know just another thought I do alot of things under windows and I have had some really funky things happen when saving web pages under it. ASP.Net Pages will do some funky things when saved even as a .htm file on another OS like CentOS. I have that. problem alot. I use firefox exclusively. This also applies to Cold Fusion Markup Pages and Java Web Apps. Believe it or not CSS could be the major culprit to it as CSS code for one site need two different CSS bases to pull the layout from. Another thought gzip compression could be causing it. As in when it gets to the browser it is not expanding all the way. What kind of wget command are you using? JohnStanley ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] How to change an executable into a directory
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 11:02 -0800, MHR wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:54 AM, John jse...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe the file Header is Corrupted or you have the wrong file association with then??? Possibly, and I don't know how to do that other than a binary edit of the files (which _I_ didn't do...). Did you try opening them with a browser exclusivly? I get The file chv81128_files is of type application/octet-stream and SeaMonkey does not know how to handle this file type Is the directory marked executable? No. ls -l This was in my previous post which you quoted - they're -r--r--r. Maybe they were saved in the wrong format? Could be, although I have saved hundreds of web pages like this and these are the first two to show up in this bizarre state. Just a thought of explanations? Mark a another reply because it interests me because I use wget massively to download sites that I don't have time to check out. The file you have could be indeed an ELF file or a Script of some kind. Let me explain: Some webdevelopers like me use scrips so when a browser makes a call to /site1/ it can actually be calling /site2/ and all your getting in return is the exe script that calls the real web application to execute. I have even had when using wget -r it not pulling in the whole site. This same type of thing can be done on ftp servers. Basically it sort of a Redirect script. I sejust you stick it into a Virtual Machine and have at it so then it is isolater from the underlying host os. Also the norobots.txt file can affect wget and how it works. JohnStanley ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] i386 packages on x64 servers
Hi! I have some servers, all running centos 5.2 x64 with current updates. None of the servers has installed packages that are not part of the centos regular packages. They were installed using the server packages at install, therefore there is no X server, GNOME, KDE or any other non-server stuff. However, I recently noted that the servers have the x64 _and_ the i386 versions of some packages installed, for instance: krb5-libs-1.6.1-25.el5_2.1 and pam_krb5-2.2.14-1.el5_2.1. My question is: If I have no 32 bits software installed on these machines, why are such libraries installed? and can they be safely removed from the servers? Thanks in advance. GERMAN ANDRES PULIDO F. Ingeniero de Proyectos Global Technology Services - GTS S.A. - Tel: (571) 658 34 10 ext 110 Cel: (573) 300 265 23 03 Carrera 7b No. 123-46 Bogotá-Colombia Sitio Web: www.gtscolombia.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] i386 packages on x64 servers
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:29 PM, German Andres Pulido Franco gpul...@gtscolombia.com wrote: Hi! I have some servers, all running centos 5.2 x64 with current updates. None of the servers has installed packages that are not part of the centos regular packages. They were installed using the server packages at install, therefore there is no X server, GNOME, KDE or any other non-server stuff. However, I recently noted that the servers have the x64 _and_ the i386 versions of some packages installed, for instance: krb5-libs-1.6.1-25.el5_2.1 and pam_krb5-2.2.14-1.el5_2.1. My question is: If I have no 32 bits software installed on these machines, why are such libraries installed? and can they be safely removed from the servers? There is a known issue with yum. See, for example, http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2008-June/002961.html http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-July/060236.html At any rate, you want to remove all *.i?86 packages and then add this line: exclude=*.i386 *.i686 in /etc/yum.conf to maintain a pure 64-bit system. Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Xen DomU console connection
James B. Byrne wrote on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:33:54 -0500 (EST): If I cannot actually switch desktops between domains then is there another technique available to accomplish much the same thing? Do the same as you would do if they were different physical machines: use VNC or NX. I would like to use Dom1 for software development using visual editors and such. Unless this is a really high-end machine this might make for a less than pleasant experience. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] downloadonly
Hi I am trying to grab some files with the command (as example) yum -y install vnc --downloadonly --downloaddir=/tmp but it says the file is already installed. I know that, but I want to download it anyway and store it for later install on another machine (saving the download time later). How do I tell yum to go ahead and download the file? THanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] TimeZone Mystery on a virtual dedicated server
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Ami Mahloof ami.mahl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a weird problem woth the time zone on my virtual (goDaddy) dedicated server I had to setup the timezone using system-config-date to GMT+7 i am in NY (GMT-5) when i do GMT-5 i get all the times 2 hours ahead seems like there's something im missing here If i add an event to my web app let's say 7:30 - 8:15 , the only way for me to show it right is GMT+7 can anyone help me figure out what am i missing here??? Start with date -u. Since this is a 'virtual' server the hardware real time clock is virtualized and not under your control. You should ask how the host keeps time. Linux has two notions of the real time clock. It is correct local time OR it is GMT. In the virtual host world there is a third case where your local time is not local time for the hardware. It may be that you need to use ntpdate at start time and ntp normally. It may also help to have system time set to hardware local time and add an environment variable (TZ) for users. This works as long as date -u returns correct UTS time (GMT). -- NiftyCluster T o m M i t c h e l l ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] downloadonly
Jerry Geis wrote: Hi I am trying to grab some files with the command (as example) yum -y install vnc --downloadonly --downloaddir=/tmp but it says the file is already installed. I know that, but I want to download it anyway and store it for later install on another machine (saving the download time later). How do I tell yum to go ahead and download the file? THanks, Jerry Use yumdowloader (from the yum-utils package) -- - Fabian Arrotin fabian.arro...@arrfab.net Internet network currently down, TCP/IP packets delivered now by UPS/Fedex ... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
