[CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home
Hi everyone, I added a page under the HowTos for Encryption, and then added a guide for encrypting /tmp /swap and /home using cryptsetup and LUKS keys on LVM, when you already have partitions setup. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/EncryptTmpSwapHome Regards, Max ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home
Marcus Moeller wrote: Please try to follow the wiki styling guidelines: http://wiki.centos.org/HowToContribute/EditingCentOSWiki That means you should e.g. use headings for titles and subtitles. Take a look at existing pages to see what I mean. I write my stuff in HTML, and then use html2wiki to format it. My headings are formatted for my website, which saves me from writing two sets of documents since both places are identical in content to the page. It's never been a problem before with all the pages I've contributed to, at least no one has spoke up with the other pages. Max ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home
Marcus Moeller wrote: We are just trying to offer a common look feel on the wiki. I am going to rework you page so that you can see what I mean. I understand and know what you mean, but it can be cumbersome and time consuming to have to write pages in multiple formats. I like writing docs for CentOS, but I also host them on my website where they are written in HTML first. I find wiki syntax to be annoying to write first drafts in, because that's just my preference. I'll try to more mindful about it in the future, on future posts and pages. Would you prefer to have documentation submitted by the community and people like myself who volunteer docs to delegated members to format uniformly on the wiki, rather than posting it myself? Regards, Max ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Max Hetrick wrote: Marcus Moeller wrote: We are just trying to offer a common look feel on the wiki. I am going to rework you page so that you can see what I mean. I understand and know what you mean, but it can be cumbersome and time consuming to have to write pages in multiple formats. I like writing docs for CentOS, but I also host them on my website where they are written in HTML first. I find wiki syntax to be annoying to write first drafts in, because that's just my preference. I'll try to more mindful about it in the future, on future posts and pages. Would you prefer to have documentation submitted by the community and people like myself who volunteer docs to delegated members to format uniformly on the wiki, rather than posting it myself? Would it be possible to change the resulting output of your html2wiki script to something the CentOS Wiki uses ? I don't think it can be that hard as it mainly is the syntax for the headings. -- -- dag wieers, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 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] Encrypting tmp swap and home
Marcus Moeller wrote: First I just want to make one thing clear: I really appreciate your work which is well done. There are just some small formatting rules you should mind of. As mentioned it's mostly about headings. I am going to rework it for you. In general I (and a few other wiki contributors) try to take care of the styling and re-work pages to fulfill our needs. But (at least me) always add changelog notes on style modification to line out what I have done and try to talk to the original contributor so that she/he could do in on her/his own on future additions. I'm not trying to start an argument, so let's just drop this conversation and I'll deal with it. When I get time, I'll re-work all my pages on the wiki with what you want, but I can't guarantee when that will be. Thanks, Max ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home
Dag Wieers wrote: Would it be possible to change the resulting output of your html2wiki script to something the CentOS Wiki uses ? I don't think it can be that hard as it mainly is the syntax for the headings. Dag, I don't know, honestly. It's a Perl program I found, and I'm not a programmer. There seem to be no options for changing the output of what headings you want equaling to the outcome. http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-WikiConverter/bin/html2wiki You just choose a wiki dialect and it spits out the formatting, without much option for anything else. Max ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home
Marcus Moeller wrote: There are just some small formatting rules you should mind of. Fixed. I also fixed all my other pages while I was at it, so I didn't have to worry about them. In the future, I'll make sure the formatting is correct on any new material I submit. Thanks, Max ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: html2wiki --dialect MoinMoin my_file.html | sed '/^=/s/==\(=*\)/\1/g' Thanks, Filipe. That changes all the headings to = Title 1 =. I think I'll contact the maintainer of html2wiki and see if they know whether or not the MoinMoin dialect is behaving the way it is. Once I investigated it, I really think it's not behaving the way it should for MoinMoin. In the meantime, I'll play around with your sed one-liner there. Thanks! Max ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 18:40, Max Hetrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: html2wiki --dialect MoinMoin my_file.html | sed '/^=/s/==\(=*\)/\1/g' That changes all the headings to = Title 1 =. No it doesn't. It removes two = from each line that starts with a = (i.e. is a title line). So it transforms === title 3 ===into = title 1 = title 4 into == title 2 == = title 5 =into === title 3 === Wasn't that what you needed? Filipe ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: No it doesn't. It removes two = from each line that starts with a = (i.e. is a title line). So it transforms === title 3 ===into = title 1 = title 4 into == title 2 == = title 5 =into === title 3 === Ahhh, crap! You're right. I realized I just ran it on the file that I corrected into proper formatting, that I used to change the guide into what the wiki format needs. It's been a long day. Thanks, again. I'll use this until I get my things fixed up, and then I'll still contact the html2wiki developer to get this corrected for good. Thanks a bunch. Max ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
[CentOS-es] mensaje
buenos dias requiero mas informacion de la lista de mnsajes y si puedo enviar publicidad mediante ella -- CHRISTIAN HEYMANN Y. GERENTE REGIONAL PETCO SOLUTIONS PAUL RIVET E 1142 Y AV. 6 DE DICIEMBRE TELF: 2506840-092746153-084483381 VISITE NUESTRO WEB SITE: www.petcosolutions.com QUITO-ECUADOR ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] mensaje
Necesita alguna respuesta este tarado? Christian Heymann escribió: buenos dias requiero mas informacion de la lista de mnsajes y si puedo enviar publicidad mediante ella -- CHRISTIAN HEYMANN Y. GERENTE REGIONAL PETCO SOLUTIONS PAUL RIVET E 1142 Y AV. 6 DE DICIEMBRE TELF: 2506840-092746153-084483381 VISITE NUESTRO WEB SITE: www.petcosolutions.com http://www.petcosolutions.com QUITO-ECUADOR ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] mensaje
Christian Heymann wrote: buenos dias requiero mas informacion de la lista de mnsajes y si puedo enviar publicidad mediante ella No y merece las penas del infierno! Quien modera la lista? salu2 -- Francisco José Collao Gárate LinuxUser #363300 http://pcollaog.firefox.cl Free, powerful, secure and easy to use. http://www.firefox.cl signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] es.centos.org
Ing. Ernesto Pérez Estévez escribió: hola Estimados la gente de CentOS está valorando la posibilidad, a ver, en realidad es que quieren sacar el sitio de CentOS.org en varios idiomas. Al momento han sacaro fr.centos.org (si te fijas no es totalmente igual al www.centos.org y eso ha provocado algunas quejas). Lo que hallo más interesante es la posibilidad de tener un foro en español. Personalmente no tengo mucho tiempo, pero me lancé como Bartolo (el que se brinda sólo) a ver si puedo ayudar, pero solicitaría si algunos de uds tiene interés en ayudar a implementarlo me lo comuniquen para yo pasarle a Karanbir Singh uno de los más populares colaboradores de CentOS que está solicitando gente que se brinde al tema. En principio tengo claro que hará falta gente para crear el sitio, o mejor aún para traducir las partes estáticas. Hacer los enlaces a la lista en español, en fin todo cuando pueda hacerse sobre el tema.. y después irían los foros. Si la cosa va como fr.centos.org sería interesante poder separar en foros los temas. ¿Les parece? So se si llego a tiempo (como podéis ver llevo bastante retraso con los correos de las listas) y, como muchos de aquí me imagino, no tengo demasiado tiempo disponible por lo que no puedo comprometerme a tareas muy complejas o costosas pero si hay algo en lo que pueda ayudar aquí estoy. Un saludo a todos. Santiago ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] mensaje
Va morao como se dice por mis tierras, jeje ;-) El 15 de octubre de 2008 16:10, Ing. Ernesto Pérez Estévez [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Christian Heymann wrote: buenos dias requiero mas informacion de la lista de mnsajes y si puedo enviar publicidad mediante ella no, publicidad no se envía aqui. Si quieres enviar una propuesta de trabajo usando CentOS (o cualquier linux en general) puedes hacernosla llegar a los centos-owners y nosotros te ayudamos posteándola en la lista inmediatamente. Esto aplica para todos los de la lista, si necesitan ofrecer algún trabajo contáctenos para nosotros enviarlo a la lista gustosamente. recuerda que la publicidad, spam, información, avisos o cualquier tipo de envíos masivos no solicitados NO son permitidos, tolerados ni aceptados en nuestra lista. Esta es una lista de CentOS Linux en Español y solo queremos saber de CentOS Linux o de Linux en esta lista, nada más. Y por lo tanto el reglamento a la ley de comercio electrónico ecuatoriana (jurisdicción a la cual pareces pertenecer) advierte que en caso de no aceptarse el recibo de un correo no puede este ser enviado. En cualquier otro caso mejor asume que no, no aceptamos publicidad. saludos epe ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es -- Saludos! epe Ing. Ernesto Pérez Estévez http://www.NuestroServer.com/ USA: +1 305 359 4495 / España: +34 91 761 7884 Ecuador: +593 2 341 2402 / + 593 9 9246504 Mexico: +52 55 1163 8640 / Italia: +39 06 916504876 ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] Hola linux
Te doy unos recursitos para que te los mires, Bienvenido a Linux, el siguiente paso es que infectes a más personas con este 'virus' no lucrativo Guia de linux http://www.guiaslinux.org/ Más manuales, recuerdo que aquí conseguí compilar mi primer nucleo de linux super personalizado http://www.linux-es.org/documentacion Alternativas libres a aplicaciones propietarias, en castellano - http://www.freealts.com/ Información sobre nuestra loco-cultura y extras de información - http://barrapunto.com/ Saber algo más: - Google.es ;-) Si quieres saber algo concreto en profundidad avisa y te compartimos algun recurso. Tómate todo con calma y no desesperes, ya tienes la puerta principal abierta, ahora eres libre. Saludos El 14 de octubre de 2008 6:29, Ing. Ernesto Pérez Estévez [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Walfrido Cobas Portuondo wrote: Lo primero es poder hacer las mismas tareas habituales que hacia en Windows, editar documentos, trabajar en hojas de cálculos, reproducir música y videos, ver multimedias, etc perfecto, te felicito, centos funciona muy bien en escritorios y es una distro muy conservadora lo que hará que te mantengan soporte por 7 años, cosa que al momento ninguna otra distro ofrece. No es bonitillo pero tienes soporte por largos años. Uso Centos en mi escritorio desde el 2003 si mal no recuerdo o 2004 y estoy feliz con él. Mucha gente lo concibe como para servidores (que es buenísimo en servidores!) pero como un escritorio no deja nada que desear sober todo por su periodo tan extendido de actualizaciones. Y para ello necesito saber qué aplicaciones puedo utilizar, donde encontrarlas, como las instalo, como se incorporan codecs para distintos formatos de archivos de sonido y video, con que puedo quemar mis discos. repositorios, si quieres mira en www.ecualug.org en la sección de COMOS tengo una parte llamada repositorios y encontrarás muchísimos repos de donde podrás instalar las aplicaciones que necesites. En un segundo momento tendré necesidad de correr aplicaciones Windows desde Linux, pues tengo aplicaciones desarrolladas para esa plataforma con las que deberé convivir por un tiempito. no eres el unico, a varios les pasa.. prueba wine pero no te garantizo qe 100% todo te funcione saludos epe Con agradecimiento anticipado, ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es -- http://www.cdlogrones.com http://www.logrones.org ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
[CentOS-es] Consulta instalacion JBoss en centos
Hi to All. Despues de googlear y googlear no he encontrado mucha info de como instalar JBoss Aqui mis consultas existe un repositorio para instalar JDK 6? o si alguien me indica como instalar JBoss Les cuento es para hacer unas pruebas la verdad no manejo Jboss y lo necesito aprender rapido. Tengo una instalacion limpia de Centos 5.2 modo server solo consola. Me seria de mucha utilidad cualquier tutorial mas menos actualizado o que me indique como hacer De antemano Gracias. -- Wladimir A. Jiménez B. http://www.kasbeel.cl Linux User # 444661 Ubuntu User # 19201 ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] Consulta instalacion JBoss en centos
Hola si es cierto no hay mucha información al respecto , pero es mas simple de los que parece, como averiguaste necesitas : - J2SDK : es un .bin que se ejecuta y salmente se descomprime , y se referencia en el sistema - JBOSS , un tar.gz que se ejecuta y salmente se descomprime , y se referencia en el sistema Aquí te paso algunos pasos ,espero que te sirva: JAVA 1.5 DESCOMPRIMIR sh ./jdk1.5.bin mv jdk1.5 /opt/jdk1.5 ln -s /opt/jdk1.5/bin/java /usr/bin/java ln -s /opt/jdk1.5/bin/javac /usr/bin/javac PROBAR java -version javac JBOSS tar xvfz jboss-4.0.3SP1.tar.gz vi /etc/profile export JBOSS_HOME=/home/app/jboss-4.0.3SP1 export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.5 export CLASSPATH=/opt/jdk1.5/jdk1.5.0/lib/tools.jar EJECUTAR JBOSS /home/app/jboss-4.0.3SP1/bin/run.sh -- Saludos Juan Blog: http://jroliva.wordpress.com *tildes omitidas intencionalmente 2008/10/15 Wladimir A. Jimenez B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi to All. Despues de googlear y googlear no he encontrado mucha info de como instalar JBoss Aqui mis consultas existe un repositorio para instalar JDK 6? o si alguien me indica como instalar JBoss Les cuento es para hacer unas pruebas la verdad no manejo Jboss y lo necesito aprender rapido. Tengo una instalacion limpia de Centos 5.2 modo server solo consola. Me seria de mucha utilidad cualquier tutorial mas menos actualizado o que me indique como hacer De antemano Gracias. -- Wladimir A. Jiménez B. http://www.kasbeel.cl Linux User # 444661 Ubuntu User # 19201 ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS] Regd: SeLinux Configuration
Dear All, Find attached the grub boot loader configuration file /boot/grub/grub.conf Regards -S.Balaji Barry Brimer wrote: Please post /boot/grub/grub.conf as well. There may be an selinux or enforcing parameter on the kernel line that is producing unexpected results. # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/vgroot/LogVol02 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=2 timeout=5 password --md5 $1$KzqM8$cLC0UIaUN8QwVAlwDMGWl0 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.6.9-34.ELhugemem) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.ELhugemem ro root=/dev/vgroot/LogVol02 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9-34.ELhugemem.img title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.6.9-34.ELsmp) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.ELsmp ro root=/dev/vgroot/LogVol02 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9-34.ELsmp.img title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.6.9-34.EL) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.EL ro root=/dev/vgroot/LogVol02 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9-34.EL.img ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [OT] What is the best network monitoring tool?
Hello: I'm using hobbit : http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/ http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit (live system) "Hobbit monitors your hosts, your network services, and anything else you configure it to do via extensions. Hobbit can periodically generate requests to network services - http, ftp, smtp and so on - and record if the service is responding as expected. You can also monitor local disk utilisation, logfiles and processes through the use of agents installed on the servers." It's not as complete as nagios but works fine Greetings Tim Berger escribi: On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Alejandro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Currently I have a big question. What is the best OPEN SOURCE solution for monitoring multiple Host and Services, for example for using in a WebHosting Provider with 50 hosts or more. I've had good luck with "mon". Written in Perl and supports plug-in monitor and alert modules. The modules are easy to write. It's better than most largely advertised system monitoring/alert packages because it is simple in design, configuration is flexible, and it supports a large number of hosts. http://mon.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page Currently, I'm using NAGIOS for more than 3 years, this is a incredible tool, but before upgrade to version 3, I have this existential question. Please fill free to recommend any soft, but with this option in mind. 1- Easy option to personalize any plug-in 2- Good Documentation 3- Support large platforms 4- Run over Linux Sorry for me English Regards Alejandro www.linuxiso.com.ar from Buenos Aires, Argentina ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- -Tim ___ 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
[CentOS] Seeking advice about auth/home serving
Hi, I'm currently using nis/nfs3/autofs in a small network (20 boxes), and planning on using a more secure/elegant method. The thing is, which solution to adopt ? The network is mainly composed of Centos boxes, and a couple MS/Win ones. ldap/kerberos/nfs4 ? Directory Server ? Anything else ? Another point is, we have several servers with a local /data. Is there any solution to make each /data accessible to each server without having to maintain an awful fstab list per server ? (no way to deploy gfs). Regards, Laurent. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Regd: SeLinux Configuration
Dear All, I have wrongly attached RHEL grub configuration with previous mail and now I am attached the CentOS grub boot loader configuration file /boot/grub/grub.conf Regards -S.Balaji Balaji wrote: Dear All, Find attached the grub boot loader configuration file /boot/grub/grub.conf Regards -S.Balaji Barry Brimer wrote: Please post /boot/grub/grub.conf as well. There may be an selinux or enforcing parameter on the kernel line that is producing unexpected results. # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda1 # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title CentOS-4 i386 (2.6.9-42.EL) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.EL ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-42.EL.img ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] App Question.
Bruce wrote on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:21:14 -0700: in this case, i disagree Frankly, it is OT. 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] Extract text from Microsoft PowerPoint files
I'm wondering if there are command tools like antiword and docx2txt for Microsoft PowerPoint files (.ppt and .pptx). The idea is to extract text from PowerPoint files. Sorry this isn't exactly about CentOS, but I'd really like it if Yum has something. I tried xlhtml, but it hasn't been updated in a while and isn't exactly wanting to work on CentOS 5. JohnStanley Writes: If you pretty slick at Python I know for fact there is a python rtf (ritch text format) library to extract rtf. So if you look hard enough there is probally one on the net that someone has wrote. Google even has a RTF Library for Python. As a side note .Net offers Office Tools to do that very thing you want in .Net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Seeking advice about auth/home serving
Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: 2008/10/15 Ian Forde [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Without knowing more specifics, you could always try using the /net automount... as in: /net/servername/data It's ugly, and rarely used, but it works for small networks... OK, here are some more details: each /data is between 1 and 8 TB, network is gbps. Generally, we process data locally for efficiency/latency (processing often touches several tens or hundreds of GB) , but sometimes a box can be a bit overloaded, and we want to process data on another server, using nfs mounts. Our datacenter keeps growing, and mounting every /data on every box is becoming ugly. I'm willing to know if there's a cleaner solution. Is there any way you would/could consider a centralized storage solution like netapp or similar? Yes, it could be costly but you *are* currently tossing back and forth up to 160 TB of data on discreet storage. Do you do backups? Do you have 20 server boxes/towers? Or are you using rackmount blade servers? HW raid cards? What size disks? Sorry for all the prying questions - just that your computing situation intrigues me. I'd understand your reluctance to give out this info. -- tkb ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Seeking advice about auth/home serving
2008/10/15 Toby Bluhm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there any way you would/could consider a centralized storage solution like netapp or similar? Yes, it could be costly but you *are* currently tossing back and forth up to 160 TB of data on discreet storage. Do you do backups? Do you have 20 server boxes/towers? Or are you using rackmount blade servers? HW raid cards? What size disks? Sorry for all the prying questions - just that your computing situation intrigues me. I'd understand your reluctance to give out this info. A centralized storage solution is impossible due to our (awfully) low IT budget. Only important data is backuped (/home and a couple other things), as we can't afford to save several TB. 3 servers are rack ones, others are towers. A bit of history: when I get employed there, we had 400GB, 1 box per user, 100mbps network, local user accounts...we are now at 30+TB, twice more boxes than users... Everytime we had to work on a new satellite, generally a new box came in and was dedicated to store and process data of this new sat. Everytime, it was a noname box, with classical hardware and a 3ware card (sometimes, I even had to use software raid *sigh*). We're always close to full capacity, and work in emergency is my daily companion (as I'm the only IT guy, having to do lots of things others than admin) Disks are, depending on the box, from 200GB to 1TB, 4 up to 24 ones. raid is mostly 5, 10 on a couple others (home server, db server) I know the way it was deployed isn't the best, unfortunately, struggling with low time and budget, it was difficult to do it a different way. I hope I answered to your questions, do not hesitate to ask if you need more details. Regards, Laurent ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] DHCP static hosts and subnet configuration
Hi all. I have set up a DHCP server with multiple subnet configurations (let's say subnet A and B). Within that I have declared pools and static hosts addresses. Now, if I have set up a static host entry (with fixed-address) in Subnet B for a specific machine and try to connect to Subnet A with that NIC (where it should obtain an address from the range), this does not work unless I add a static host entry for that machine to the Subnet A declaration, too. I even have to assign a fixed-address, there. I just want the NIC to clain it's address from the range on Subnet A and to assign a fixed address on Subnet B. Best Regards Marcus ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] formatting large volume
On Oct 14, 2008, at 10:36 PM, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got a new server with a Dell MD-1000 SAS unit and 6-750 gigabyte drives which are now initializing in RAID 10 which will give me just about 2 terabytes. I vaguely recall reading that fdisk wasn't suitable for partitioning and wonder if I shouldn't be using partd instead. I am also wondering if I should use lvm or just mkfs to create the filesystem. Anyone have suggestions before I blunder in? Just pvcreate the whole disk and forgo partitioning it. Then create a vg out of it and start creating lvs. -Ross ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Seeking advice about auth/home serving
Hi, On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 06:05, Laurent Wandrebeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/10/15 Ian Forde [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Without knowing more specifics, you could always try using the /net automount... as in: /net/servername/data It's ugly, and rarely used, but it works for small networks... automount could do the trick, but it's ugly, as you said :) automount is not ugly, what is ugly is to use paths that include the name of the server, in that if you change the server name the path of the files will change. This is also ugly because you end up having cross-mounts, in which machine A mounts a volume from machine B and machine B mounts a volume from machine A, so when you want to shut them down they may hang one waiting for the other one to come up (and with fstab instead of automount, you have the same problem when you boot up). automount is actually quite a good tool if you really need to do this kind of stuff, which in your case you will probably have to anyway. The setup with automount is actually good in that volumes will be kept mounted only while they're used (if you use a short enough timeout), and in your case it seems that they will be seldomly used, so you would not have NFS mounted filesystems most of the time. I sure recommend you to move from NIS to LDAP, for your network size OpenLDAP should be good enough, but you may want to look into a Directory Server if you want something more robust (although it will be harder to set up). When you implement LDAP, make sure you implement it over SSL if you don't want your passwords going unencrypted over the network, or use LDAP for user information only and Kerberos for authentication. NFSv3 - NFSv4 also looks good, but I would say this tends to be a more risky upgrade, since NFS3 is quite stable and NFS4 is still somewhat new and you may end up having some surprises with it. Personally I will still stick with NFSv3 for a while. HTH, Filipe ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Error on man page
Hi I discovered a similar problem early this week and a colleage on irc was told it was a copy and paste error. in man syslogd, the following can be found: Sucker rod def. -- 3/4, 7/8 or 1in. hardened steel rod, male threaded on each end. Primary use in the oil industry in Western North Dakota and other locations to pump 'suck' oil from oil wells. Sec- ondary uses are for the construction of cattle feed lots and for dealing with the occasional recalcitrant or belligerent individual. Regards __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email _ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] formatting large volume
Just pvcreate the whole disk and forgo partitioning it. Then create a vg out of it and start creating lvs. Hey Ross, I thought it was best practice to create an LVM partition such that the disk could be recognizable under all circumstances such as if the volume was moved? Is that not really best practice anymore? jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Seeking advice about auth/home serving
2008/10/15 Filipe Brandenburger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, snip automount is actually quite a good tool if you really need to do this kind of stuff, which in your case you will probably have to anyway. The setup with automount is actually good in that volumes will be kept mounted only while they're used (if you use a short enough timeout), and in your case it seems that they will be seldomly used, so you would not have NFS mounted filesystems most of the time. agreed, I guess there's no other way. snip NFSv3 - NFSv4 also looks good, but I would say this tends to be a more risky upgrade, since NFS3 is quite stable and NFS4 is still somewhat new and you may end up having some surprises with it. Personally I will still stick with NFSv3 for a while. I'm currently reading http://www-theorie.physik.unizh.ch/~dpotter/howto/kerberos (ldap/kerberos/nfs4 howto), and I think I'll follow that, minus nfs4. I've taken a quick look at Directory Server, it seems nice but a bit overkill for the size of the network. Thx a lot for your advice. Laurent. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Error on man page
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I discovered a similar problem early this week and a colleage on irc was told it was a copy and paste error. in man syslogd, the following can be found: Sucker rod def. -- 3/4, 7/8 or 1in. hardened steel rod, male threaded on each end. Primary use in the oil industry in Western North Dakota and other locations to pump 'suck' oil from oil wells. Sec- ondary uses are for the construction of cattle feed lots and for dealing with the occasional recalcitrant or belligerent individual. Its not an error, read the previous lines: 5. Use step 4 and if the problem persists and is not secondary to a rogue program/daemon get a 3.5 ft (approx. 1 meter) length of sucker rod* and have a chat with the user in question. Its an attempt at a joke by the author of the man page. Rick ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Re: Mass installs of desktop systems on identical machines
Scott Silva scribbled on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 7:35 PM: You just need to read this list to see people having hardware troubles, mostly with SATA and/or network, but those are pretty important to a PC. I did have troubles with wifi, but that is kind off a specialty thing. It most probably was me screwing things up anyway. 8-/ Everything else has been good so far. I can also see SATA being a problem. I have had them myself, although not when using CentOS; mostly with Red Hat... 8-) Your mileage may vary I guess, as always. /S smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Problems with firstboot in CentOS 5
I'm trying to customize the firstboot process in CentOS 5 and have come across a few issues that are driving me nuts. I'm sure they are all upstream issues, but I don't have a RHEL 5 system to verify them. I had these customizations working in CentOS 4, but things that used to work then don't work now. The main problem is that you can't validate user input. This problem can be easily seen in the firstboot Create User module. If you are in this screen, deliberately enter mismatched passwords. You will get a warning that the passwords do not match, but when you click OK to dismiss the warning you are taken to the next screen. In CentOS 4, firstboot would stay at the current screen until all user input had been validated. If you look at the underlying Python code, when you returned None from the apply method it would not exit the module in CentOS 4, but it does in CentOS 5. I also can't get the firstboot Display module to load. It ships with skipme = True, but setting it to false or removing that line altogether does not show the module. It appears to me that there a lots of issues with firstboot in CentOS 5. Actually, in my environment (~40 desktops), CentOS 5 has been far less stable than CentOS 4 (mostly Gnome issues with Terminal windows crashing and window flickering). I've reported some of these issues before on this list. My servers seem to be rock stable, though. Anyway, for now I will have to live with these issues. Can I report these issues in the Red Hat bugzilla database or do I need to be a RHN subscriber to report bugs against RHEL5? I suspect (but have not verified) that these issues have been addressed in Fedora already. Alfred ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] script question
Hi all, I am trying to create a script that takes an entire file, drops the first 19 characters from each line and creates a new file. I am missing something easy but I am not seeing it. Jerry --- I tried the script below but did not work. rm output.txt cat test.txt | \ while read LINE do newline=`echo $LINE | cut -f 19-` echo $newline output.txt done test.txt is below 10-Oct-08 08:14 am 10 10-Oct-08 08:20 am 20 10-Oct-08 08:24 am 30 10-Oct-08 08:29 am 40 10-Oct-08 08:34 am 50 10-Oct-08 08:39 am 60 10-Oct-08 08:44 am 80 10-Oct-08 08:49 am 10 10-Oct-08 08:54 am 10 10-Oct-08 08:56 am 10 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] script question
I am trying to create a script that takes an entire file, drops the first 19 characters from each line and creates a new file. I am missing something easy but I am not seeing it. Jerry --- I tried the script below but did not work. rm output.txt cat test.txt | \ while read LINE do newline=`echo $LINE | cut -f 19-` echo $newline output.txt done test.txt is below 10-Oct-08 08:14 am 10 why not simply cut -b10- foo bar t ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] OT: is parted reliable?
thank you just who decides what is the correct list of stuff to talk about on this list... and then maybe the rest of us should have a centos+ list, for the other 8 billion things that we might run into that we're trying to solve/share information for.. jeeze! oh, my bad, this is probably off topic as well!! this sounds like catch-22!! (yeah, i'm old!, and well read!) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Mackintosh Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 7:07 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT: is parted reliable? On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:13:18PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: And Just to remind everyone that no, this is still not a general conversation about stuff list. How off-topic is it to ask precisely what is on-topic for this list if questions and discussions of the included components belong on the support mechanisms for those individual parts, and the rest (ie anaconda and friends) probably belongs in the upstream vendor's forums? What does that leave? The color of the logo? (I like the blue.) -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xdroop.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] script question
Hello Jerry- Simply change the line: newline=`echo $LINE | cut -f 19-` to this: newline=`echo $LINE | cut -c 19-` You want to cut based on 'c'haracters, not 'f'ields. :-) Tim Nelson Systems/Network Support Rockbochs Inc. (218)727-4332 x105 - Jerry Geis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am trying to create a script that takes an entire file, drops the first 19 characters from each line and creates a new file. I am missing something easy but I am not seeing it. Jerry --- I tried the script below but did not work. rm output.txt cat test.txt | \ while read LINE do newline=`echo $LINE | cut -f 19-` echo $newline output.txt done test.txt is below 10-Oct-08 08:14 am 10 10-Oct-08 08:20 am 20 10-Oct-08 08:24 am 30 10-Oct-08 08:29 am 40 10-Oct-08 08:34 am 50 10-Oct-08 08:39 am 60 10-Oct-08 08:44 am 80 10-Oct-08 08:49 am 10 10-Oct-08 08:54 am 10 10-Oct-08 08:56 am 10 ___ 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] Seeking advice about auth/home serving
Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: . . A centralized storage solution is impossible due to our (awfully) low IT budget. I'm used to that. We need this, this, this and that. Here's a dollar. Only important data is backuped (/home and a couple other things), as we can't afford to save several TB. 3 servers are rack ones, others are towers. A bit of history: when I get employed there, we had 400GB, 1 box per user, 100mbps network, local user accounts...we are now at 30+TB, twice more boxes than users... Everytime we had to work on a new satellite, generally a new box came in and was dedicated to store and process data of this new sat. Everytime, it was a noname box, with classical hardware and a 3ware card (sometimes, I even had to use software raid *sigh*). We're always I rather enjoy using SW raid. close to full capacity, and work in emergency is my daily companion (as I'm the only IT guy, having to do lots of things others than admin) Disks are, depending on the box, from 200GB to 1TB, 4 up to 24 ones. raid is mostly 5, 10 on a couple others (home server, db server) I know the way it was deployed isn't the best, unfortunately, struggling with low time and budget, it was difficult to do it a different way. Kinda what I figured - a conglomeration of stuff. Sounds like a situation I'd find myself in. Actually, I kinda like it. Anyway, how about collapsing your storage down to a few roll-your-own NFS servers? Perhaps the smaller boxes could easily be moved to one server, the heavy hitters left as is the medium boxes folded into 2-3 servers. That said, NFS server performance on generic hardware Linux always seems to be somewhat of an issue. While I'm not a huge fan of Sun, a few OpenSolaris boxes with ZFS could be quite nifty. With the only resources being myself (relatively) inexpensive generic HW, that would be my approach. -- tkb ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] script question
On Wed, October 15, 2008 10:48 am, Jerry Geis wrote: Hi all, I am trying to create a script that takes an entire file, drops the first 19 characters from each line and creates a new file. I am missing something easy but I am not seeing it. Jerry --- I tried the script below but did not work. rm output.txt cat test.txt | \ while read LINE do newline=`echo $LINE | cut -f 19-` echo $newline output.txt done test.txt is below 10-Oct-08 08:14 am 10 10-Oct-08 08:20 am 20 10-Oct-08 08:24 am 30 10-Oct-08 08:29 am 40 10-Oct-08 08:34 am 50 10-Oct-08 08:39 am 60 10-Oct-08 08:44 am 80 10-Oct-08 08:49 am 10 10-Oct-08 08:54 am 10 10-Oct-08 08:56 am 10 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Instead of using cut -f use cut -c19- ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] script question
Hi, On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:48, Jerry Geis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to create a script that takes an entire file, drops the first 19 characters from each line and creates a new file. newline=`echo $LINE | cut -f 19-` What you want is cut -c 19- (-c as in characters) and not cut -f 19- (-f as in fields). echo $newline output.txt This will also remove the spacing. You should at least use echo $newline output.txt, but in any case it's silly as you can just: cut -c 19- test.txt output.txt HTH, Filipe ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] script question
Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:48, Jerry Geis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to create a script that takes an entire file,
drops the first 19 characters from each line and creates a new file.
newline=`echo $LINE | cut -f 19-`
What you want is cut -c 19- (-c as in characters) and not cut -f
19- (-f as in fields).
echo $newline output.txt
This will also remove the spacing. You should at least use echo
$newline output.txt, but in any case it's silly as you can just:
cut -c 19- test.txt output.txt
Or sed -e 's/^...//' text.txt output.txt
which might be a nicer starting point if you want to make other changes
although it won't change a line with less than 19 characters. If you'd
want that, 's/^.\{1,19\}//' should do it.
--
Les Mikesell
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Re: [CentOS] Problem building Perl net-snmp
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: '/users/newt2/mgarcia/Downloads/Nagios-3.0.3/net-snmp-5.4.2/perl/SNMP/../blib/arch/auto/NetSNMP/default_store/default_store.so' for module NetSNMP::default_store: libnetsnmp.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at You don't have the snmp library installed that the program is looking for. I don't see libnetsnmp.so.15 on either of my CentOS 4.6 or CentOS 5.1 systems so it seems like you may of installed net-snmp from source..in which case you need to point the program at the location of your net-snmp installation so it can find the library. rpm -qa | grep -i net-snmp nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] script question
Jerry Geis wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to create a script that takes an entire file,
drops the first 19 characters from each line and creates a new file.
[..]
test.txt is below
10-Oct-08 08:14 am 10
If this is the format of your data you could use awk to do the same
thing
cat filename | awk '{print $4}'
nate
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Re: [CentOS] Postfix problem
On Wed, October 15, 2008 6:34 am, Paolo Supino wrote: Hi I have a CentOS 4.2 server with postfix. The problem I'm having is that postfix insists on using $myhostname in the from field even if I instruct it to use $mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf or even if I hard code the domain name into $myorigin. What am I missing? BTW: postconf shows output shows that $myorigin is configured to use $mydomain, or the domain name itself ... -- ttyl Paolo Could you post output of # postconf -n Brian ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] mysql 5 for centos 5.2
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:29 PM, John R Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Quitoriano wrote: What do you recommend me to do so i can optimize my database on a multi-core processor? and i haven't got an answer for the mysql package for centos 5 is the multi-threading supported? each connection to mysql spawns a thread, however under various conditions the threads can block each other, including if they are stacking up on table locks to update the same table. otherwise, yes, mysql is fully multithreaded, as long as you're making multiple queries concurrently via different connections oh ok got it. But as i can see that with my database server it only eats up 1 core of my core2quad processor. how can i optimize mysql to use all 4 core of my processor? thanks again for the answers ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT: is parted reliable?
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:12 AM, John Newbigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Until CentOS 4.7, parted would create DOS partitions 2Tb. DOS partitions can not be 2Tb. This could ...corrupt partition tables and ruin filesystem. The latest version from CentOS 4.7 fixes this (and other) bugs. John. Sergio Belkin wrote: Hi, I've read on LPI Linux Certification (Ed O'Reilly) in a nutshell the following thing: parted, unfortunately, has been known to corrupt partition tables and ruin filesystem. What do you think about it? Greets! This is awfully presumptuous of a list newcomer like me, but this reply pretty clearly shows that the list monitor who intervened to criticize the OP was overreacting. There's always a way to make a good, on-topic thread out of a fair question. It's your guys' list, but if you habitually err on the side of rejecting interested newcomers, you'll eventually run out of newcomers. Go look at how the FreeBSD'ers have run their lists over the past 20 years - each question is an opportunity for the old-timers to share something they've learned - which naturally generates interest and enthusiasm - and newcomers are taken by the hand rather than shown the door. Be generous in what you accept, conservative in what you send - right? Anyway, I'm out of line, so I apologize - but here's another vote for list inclusiveness. It's not like the dude was asking about football. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Seeking advice about auth/home serving
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 09:52 +0200, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: Hi, I'm currently using nis/nfs3/autofs in a small network (20 boxes), and planning on using a more secure/elegant method. The thing is, which solution to adopt ? The network is mainly composed of Centos boxes, and a couple MS/Win ones. ldap/kerberos/nfs4 ? Directory Server ? Anything else ? Another point is, we have several servers with a local /data. Is there any solution to make each /data accessible to each server without having to maintain an awful fstab list per server ? (no way to deploy gfs). Without knowing more specifics, you could always try using the /net automount... as in: /net/servername/data It's ugly, and rarely used, but it works for small networks... -I ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Seeking advice about auth/home serving
2008/10/15 Ian Forde [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Without knowing more specifics, you could always try using the /net automount... as in: /net/servername/data It's ugly, and rarely used, but it works for small networks... OK, here are some more details: each /data is between 1 and 8 TB, network is gbps. Generally, we process data locally for efficiency/latency (processing often touches several tens or hundreds of GB) , but sometimes a box can be a bit overloaded, and we want to process data on another server, using nfs mounts. Our datacenter keeps growing, and mounting every /data on every box is becoming ugly. I'm willing to know if there's a cleaner solution. automount could do the trick, but it's ugly, as you said :) Thanks, Laurent ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Problem building Perl net-snmp
Hi I'm trying to build the perl modules of net-snmp-5.4.2. Everything seems to work fine until make test[1]. The problem with DynaLoader.pm seems to be an old one. The machine is Centos 5.2 i386 I'm trying to build instead of using the one available in the repos because I'll build in other platforms and also in nagios-plugins. Thanks Marcelo [1] Failed 17/17 tests, 0.00% okay t/getnext.Can't load '/users/newt2/mgarcia/Downloads/Nagios-3.0.3/net-snmp-5.4.2/perl/SNMP/../blib/arch/auto/NetSNMP/default_store/default_store.so' for module NetSNMP::default_store: libnetsnmp.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 230. at /users/newt2/mgarcia/Downloads/Nagios-3.0.3/net-snmp-5.4.2/perl/SNMP/../blib/lib/SNMP.pm line 16 Compilation failed in require at /users/newt2/mgarcia/Downloads/Nagios-3.0.3/net-snmp-5.4.2/perl/SNMP/../blib/lib/SNMP.pm line 16. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /users/newt2/mgarcia/Downloads/Nagios-3.0.3/net-snmp-5.4.2/perl/SNMP/../blib/lib/SNMP.pm line 16. Compilation failed in require at t/getnext.t line 15. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/getnext.t line 15. t/getnext.dubious Test returned status 2 (wstat 512, 0x200) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] New CentOS 4 Kernels cannot be seen by yum
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 04:04 -0700, Spike Turner wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: Since CentOS has not announced them yet, I would guess that is the case. There would also be a small delay while the mirrors get synchronized. This appears to be the upstream details on the kernel http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0859.html Even after a week the kernel update has not been announced yet by CentOS? With posts like these http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=16691forum=27 about a buggy kernel one would expect the newest kernel to be eagerly awaited. The key word is awaited. I suspect the real life has intervened to slow the completion steps need to release these updates. Sans security issues, real life could be expected to have priority. However, not being a team member, I'm only speculating here. Spike snip sig stuff -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] formatting large volume
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 09:47 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: On Oct 14, 2008, at 10:36 PM, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got a new server with a Dell MD-1000 SAS unit and 6-750 gigabyte drives which are now initializing in RAID 10 which will give me just about 2 terabytes. I vaguely recall reading that fdisk wasn't suitable for partitioning and wonder if I shouldn't be using partd instead. I am also wondering if I should use lvm or just mkfs to create the filesystem. Anyone have suggestions before I blunder in? Just pvcreate the whole disk and forgo partitioning it. Then create a vg out of it and start creating lvs. OK - makes sense but I am a bit confused here. I have done the pgcreate and tested lvcreate but wonder about 'setphysicalextentsize' because in the man page, it states, The default of 4 MB leads to a maximum logical volume size of around 256GB which makes me think that if I want one volume when this is all done, I have to increase that value. # fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 2248.8 GB, 2248818032640 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 273403 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table So thinking that I would need a volume just under 10 times the maximum of 256GB, I would have to set the physicalextentsize to 64 MB (32 not being quite large enough and thus 64 being the next increment in power of 2) Does this make sense? Craig ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] mysql 5 for centos 5.2
Mark Quitoriano wrote: oh ok got it. But as i can see that with my database server it only eats up 1 core of my core2quad processor. how can i optimize mysql to use all 4 core of my processor? you said you had 50-100 simultaneous connections to mysql? these are presumably issuing various queries at overlapping times? I find it pretty hard to believe its only using one processor unless all these queries are updates to the same table, using full table locking (myISAM for instance) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] firefox is incredibly unstable
does anyone else have major probs with Firefox as installed on CentOS5? ever since the RPM for FF3 came out it has been crashing daily. Usually when I use Save As... or Browse... or anything else that brings up the Gnome file picker. After the crash I re-start then the file picker works for a while. Sometimes it just takes scrolling or click+drag an image or some other random action. BANG your'e dead. Very frustrating. Now today it is just crashing randomly, I am not even touching it. Maybe one of my plugins, I know. I guess I will run it with debugger/strace. but does anyone else see this? $ rpm -qa firefox firefox-3.0.2-3.el5.centos $ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.2 (Final) $ rpm -qa kdebase kdebase-3.5.4-18.el5.centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] New CentOS 4 Kernels cannot be seen by yum
William L. Maltby wrote: Since CentOS has not announced them yet, I would guess that is the case. There would also be a small delay while the mirrors get synchronized. This appears to be the upstream details on the kernel http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0859.html Even after a week the kernel update has not been announced yet by CentOS? With posts like these http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=16691forum=27 about a buggy kernel one would expect the newest kernel to be eagerly awaited. Spike ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] DHCP static hosts and subnet configuration
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Marcus Moeller wrote:
Hi all.
I have set up a DHCP server with multiple subnet configurations
(let's say subnet A and B). Within that I have declared pools and
static hosts addresses.
Now, if I have set up a static host entry (with fixed-address) in
Subnet B for a specific machine and try to connect to Subnet A with
that NIC (where it should obtain an address from the range), this
does not work unless I add a static host entry for that machine to
the Subnet A declaration, too. I even have to assign a
fixed-address, there.
I just want the NIC to clain it's address from the range on Subnet A
and to assign a fixed address on Subnet B.
You can assign multiple host blocks for the same NIC, using a
fixed-address directive in one but not in other. dhcpd will try for
the best match. If the request arrives from subnet-B, and the fixed
address is on that net, then that's the block that gets used.
Otherwise, the less specific block will be used. E.g.,
host myhost {
hardware ethernet 11:22:33:44:55:66;
fixed-address myhost.mydom.com;
}
host myhost-roam {
hardware ethernet 11:22:33:44:55:66;
}
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[CentOS] Postfix problem
Hi I have a CentOS 4.2 server with postfix. The problem I'm having is that postfix insists on using $myhostname in the from field even if I instruct it to use $mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf or even if I hard code the domain name into $myorigin. What am I missing? BTW: postconf shows output shows that $myorigin is configured to use $mydomain, or the domain name itself ... -- ttyl Paolo ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: OT: is parted reliable?
on 10-15-2008 7:54 AM bruce spake the following: thank you just who decides what is the correct list of stuff to talk about on this list... Usually if you get spanked by one of the people who also have their names on the CentOS team members list it is time to stop. Any one else is just fair game! ;-P -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Postfix problem
Try installing WebMin and configure Postfix using their interface and see if that works for you... It is menu driven and a quick and easy way to configure your server... john Paolo Supino wrote: Hi I have a CentOS 4.2 server with postfix. The problem I'm having is that postfix insists on using $myhostname in the from field even if I instruct it to use $mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf or even if I hard code the domain name into $myorigin. What am I missing? BTW: postconf shows output shows that $myorigin is configured to use $mydomain, or the domain name itself ... -- ttyl Paolo ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.173 / Virus Database: 270.8.0/1726 - Release Date: 10/15/2008 7:29 AM ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] formatting large volume
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:52:03AM -0700, Craig White wrote: I have done the pgcreate and tested lvcreate but wonder about 'setphysicalextentsize' because in the man page, it states, The default of 4 MB leads to a maximum logical volume size of around 256GB which makes me think that if I want one volume when this is all done, I have to increase that value. The man page for vgcreate says there is a limit of 65534 extents in each logical volume but only for *lvm1* format. lvm2 format doesn't have such restrictions. I used default values for my 4Tbyte array (5*1Tbyte disk in a md raid5) under CentOS 4. % fdisk -l /dev/md3 Disk /dev/md3: 4000.8 GB, 4000808697856 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 976759936 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes % pvdisplay /dev/md3 --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/md3 VG Name Raid5 PV Size 3.64 TB / not usable 320.00 KB Allocatable yes (but full) PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 953867 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 953867 PV UUID NngvXK-4tqJ-xNtG-UnDL-Rin0-RHIl-xZ2wzI % vgdisplay Raid5 --- Volume group --- VG Name Raid5 System ID Formatlvm2 Metadata Areas1 Metadata Sequence No 4 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV0 Cur LV1 Open LV 1 Max PV0 Cur PV1 Act PV1 VG Size 3.64 TB PE Size 4.00 MB Total PE 953867 Alloc PE / Size 953867 / 3.64 TB Free PE / Size 0 / 0 VG UUID mKSI0h-26i7-5LK5-vwpX-GY3a-Bjiv-xX4q8n % lvdisplay Raid5/Media --- Logical volume --- LV Name/dev/Raid5/Media VG NameRaid5 LV UUIDc8x4Ip-R1wq-n9An-NM6B-IuBs-U61L-kfVgAU LV Write Accessread/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size3.64 TB Current LE 953867 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:5 Does this make sense? Try using pvcreate, vgcreate and lvcreate with no special options and see what happens. It worked for me! The default in CentOS should be lvm2; you can see that's what was created on mine by the Format line in the vgdisplay output. Formatlvm2 -- rgds Stephen ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Sendmail rbl - Need to bypass rbl for one local address
Linux Guru wrote on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:47:45 -0700 (PDT): Hope any one can help me. I am running centos 5.2 with sendmail and rbl feature. I need to recieve all emails come to my sales account regardless of rbl . You want to use the spam:friend feature, have a look at the sendmail documentation. Requires a recompile of your sendmail.cf. I looked on web and gave up. All I found was if I added To:sales@ ok in my sendmail.mc , No, in your access file. But that doesn't work reliably. Maybe if you put it on top. I would consider a different nick if I were you. 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] Regd: SeLinux Configuration
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Balaji wrote: Dear All, Find attached the grub boot loader configuration file /boot/grub/grub.conf Regards -S.Balaji Barry Brimer wrote: Please post /boot/grub/grub.conf as well. There may be an selinux or enforcing parameter on the kernel line that is producing unexpected results. I don't see anything in your grub.conf that alters how SELinux is handled. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] firefox is incredibly unstable
On Wednesday 15 October 2008 13:27, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: ever since the RPM for FF3 came out it has been crashing daily. Usually when I use Save As... or Browse... or anything else that brings up the Gnome file picker. After the crash I re-start then the file picker works for a while. should have mentioned that neither crashreporter nor talkback were coming up. Once in a while I get Gnome Bug-Buddy which fails to do anything useful. Seems like someone at RH tinkered with mozilla's crash handling Not for me. I have had 1 crash in 2 weeks. I would look at doing dealing with the usual suspects: 1) Remove any extra plugins you added. 2) mv .mozilla .mozilla-bad-$(date -Im) and start over. If the problem does not go away then it is some other item that is causing the issue. Well I need my plugins to get work done so I installed the binary from mozilla.org in /opt/ and symlinked to that, seems to be better so far. This is what I used to do to get the latest version anyway, so if it works will just stay this way. If not I'll get on bugzilla and pursue that. thanks Sam ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] DHCP static hosts and subnet configuration
I just want the NIC to clain it's address from the range on Subnet A and to assign a fixed address on Subnet B. JohnStanley Writes: In reading your post a couple more times, I think I see what you are after. Elaborate a little more on what you want exactly. You want the NIC to get an addy from the dhcpd server from the Subnet A address pool and then want to also obtain an addy from the Subnet B Fixed addy pool so the clients nics has two Ips? Correct? This I am not sure can be done with dhcpd. However you can specify NIC to fixed static addys and the nic harware address in the dhcp.conf file. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Postfix problem
Paolo Supino a écrit : Hi I have a CentOS 4.2 server with postfix. The problem I'm having is that postfix insists on using $myhostname in the from field even if I Prove that it is postfix that does so, and not Sendmail. show logs. instruct it to use $mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf or even if I hard code the domain name into $myorigin. What am I missing? BTW: postconf shows output shows that $myorigin is configured to use $mydomain, or the domain name itself ... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT: is parted reliable?
David Mackintosh wrote: How off-topic is it to ask precisely what is on-topic for this list if questions and discussions of the included components belong on the support mechanisms for those individual parts, and the rest (ie anaconda and friends) probably belongs in the upstream vendor's forums? A bit of common sense comes in handy. Talking about something that the developers of a component need to weight in on is definitely best suited to the upstream lists for the component. If you hit specific issues with the implementation on CentOS, thats different. Random drive by surveys, and request for comments on a blog posts etc are definitely a waste of time for *this* list. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] DHCP static hosts and subnet configuration
I just want the NIC to clain it's address from the range on Subnet A and to assign a fixed address on Subnet B. JohnStanley Writes: You can assign in your dhcp.con file for your hosts to obtain an ip based upon the host MAC Address or Host Name. Try That.. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Seeking advice about auth/home serving
On Oct 15, 2008, at 9:51 AM, Filipe Brandenburger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 06:05, Laurent Wandrebeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/10/15 Ian Forde [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Without knowing more specifics, you could always try using the /net automount... as in: /net/servername/data It's ugly, and rarely used, but it works for small networks... automount could do the trick, but it's ugly, as you said :) automount is not ugly, what is ugly is to use paths that include the name of the server, in that if you change the server name the path of the files will change. This is also ugly because you end up having cross-mounts, in which machine A mounts a volume from machine B and machine B mounts a volume from machine A, so when you want to shut them down they may hang one waiting for the other one to come up (and with fstab instead of automount, you have the same problem when you boot up). Try to write your own auto mount maps that mount to descriptive mount points rather than server names: /archive/00, /archive/01... automount is actually quite a good tool if you really need to do this kind of stuff, which in your case you will probably have to anyway. The setup with automount is actually good in that volumes will be kept mounted only while they're used (if you use a short enough timeout), and in your case it seems that they will be seldomly used, so you would not have NFS mounted filesystems most of the time. I sure recommend you to move from NIS to LDAP, for your network size OpenLDAP should be good enough, but you may want to look into a Directory Server if you want something more robust (although it will be harder to set up). When you implement LDAP, make sure you implement it over SSL if you don't want your passwords going unencrypted over the network, or use LDAP for user information only and Kerberos for authentication. If all your doing is serving up mount maps or netgroups then ldap is over kill, definitely don't put passwords in nis (or ldap) use kerberos for those. A small user base can be handled more easily via nis then ldap you don't need to put passwords in passwd use kerberos for those. NFSv3 - NFSv4 also looks good, but I would say this tends to be a more risky upgrade, since NFS3 is quite stable and NFS4 is still somewhat new and you may end up having some surprises with it. Personally I will still stick with NFSv3 for a while. For best interoperability use v3. -Ross ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] firefox is incredibly unstable
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:55 AM, sbeam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone else have major probs with Firefox as installed on CentOS5? ever since the RPM for FF3 came out it has been crashing daily. Usually when I use Save As... or Browse... or anything else that brings up the Gnome file picker. After the crash I re-start then the file picker works for a while. Not for me. I have had 1 crash in 2 weeks. I would look at doing dealing with the usual suspects: 1) Remove any extra plugins you added. 2) mv .mozilla .mozilla-bad-$(date -Im) and start over. If the problem does not go away then it is some other item that is causing the issue. Sometimes it just takes scrolling or click+drag an image or some other random action. BANG your'e dead. Very frustrating. Now today it is just crashing randomly, I am not even touching it. Maybe one of my plugins, I know. I guess I will run it with debugger/strace. but does anyone else see this? $ rpm -qa firefox firefox-3.0.2-3.el5.centos $ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.2 (Final) $ rpm -qa kdebase kdebase-3.5.4-18.el5.centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] App Question.
bruce wrote: Hi list!! Got a question, and I can't find a good answer for, so I figured i'd post here. I'm working on a project that involves a number of smaller apps to be developed, and run. In order to build this overall application, I'm trying to find a web based app that I can use to manage the entire process. I need to be able to create the basic app, and then to test the app, and then to run the app in a production environment. I need to be able to schedule when the app is tested/run in the production system, as well as be able to track the status of the test/production app. My overall system will have 100's of these smaller child apps. Has anyone heard of, or have any pointers to any kind of webbased app that I can use (open source) to manage this entire kind of process. I would prefer a web based app, that runs on a LAMP platform to manage this overall process It is sort of java-oriented, but cruisecrontrol manages that sort of thing: http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/index.html. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] formatting large volume
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 13:34 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:52:03AM -0700, Craig White wrote: I have done the pgcreate and tested lvcreate but wonder about 'setphysicalextentsize' because in the man page, it states, The default of 4 MB leads to a maximum logical volume size of around 256GB which makes me think that if I want one volume when this is all done, I have to increase that value. The man page for vgcreate says there is a limit of 65534 extents in each logical volume but only for *lvm1* format. lvm2 format doesn't have such restrictions. I used default values for my 4Tbyte array (5*1Tbyte disk in a md raid5) under CentOS 4. SNIP... Try using pvcreate, vgcreate and lvcreate with no special options and see what happens. It worked for me! The default in CentOS should be lvm2; you can see that's what was created on mine by the Format line in the vgdisplay output. Formatlvm2 OK - well, I can delete the vg and the lv that I created and just consider them as practice. I'm not really sure what the difference would be having the physical extent size as 64 MB versions 4 MB. I did run into a snag that I don't fully understand while trying to make the filesystem though... # mke2fs -v -j -l 2TbVol /dev/VolGroup10/2TbVol mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) 274513920 inodes, 549011456 blocks 27450572 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 Maximum filesystem blocks=0 16755 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 16384 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 2048, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968, 10240, 214990848, 51200 read_bad_blocks_file: No such file or directory while trying to open 2TbVol Obviously there is no physical disk to read a bad blocks file from and I don't see in the man page for mke2fs any way to tell it to ignore bad blocks or not search for the file. Craig ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] App Question.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:21:14PM -0700, bruce wrote: Karanbir in this case, i disagree. we're looking for a tool, that may very well exist snip well you could start by 1) not top posting 2) trim your replies 3) stay on topic or be smart enough to put a relevant off topic subject. Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xBEFA581B pgpEF7W2AEJzc.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: Mass installs of desktop systems on identical machines
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 07:36 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: Thanks very much everybody for your numerous comments. I guess I got much more than I expected. One more suggestion... try SystemImager... -I ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] yum priorities question
Mufit Eribol wrote on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:32:34 +0300: Checked that, already enabled. I meant: is that *repo* enabled? But it seems the problem was different, anyway. obsoletes strikes again. 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] formatting large volume
I'm not really sure what the difference would be having the physical extent size as 64 MB versions 4 MB. It's the smallest allocatable size of any PV you can give to an LV. Think of it like Allocation Unit Size. Also as pointed out above some limitations arise in different versions of LVM. RH defaults to 32M I believe... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] formatting large volume
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:13:08AM -0700, Craig White wrote: I did run into a snag that I don't fully understand while trying to make the filesystem though... # mke2fs -v -j -l 2TbVol /dev/VolGroup10/2TbVol Were you trying to specify a label? If so, use the -L option, not -l Were you trying to specify a bad block list? Why? I'd be VERY surprised if you need to do this. So you either meant mke2fs -v -j /dev/VolGroup10/2TbVol OR mke2fs -v -j -L 2TbVol /dev/VolGroup10/2TbVol -- rgds Stephen ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] formatting large volume
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 14:34 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:13:08AM -0700, Craig White wrote: I did run into a snag that I don't fully understand while trying to make the filesystem though... # mke2fs -v -j -l 2TbVol /dev/VolGroup10/2TbVol Were you trying to specify a label? If so, use the -L option, not -l Were you trying to specify a bad block list? Why? I'd be VERY surprised if you need to do this. So you either meant mke2fs -v -j /dev/VolGroup10/2TbVol OR mke2fs -v -j -L 2TbVol /dev/VolGroup10/2TbVol duh...thanks :::blush::: too many man pages ;-) Thanks Craig ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] firefox is incredibly unstable
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:39 AM, sbeam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I need my plugins to get work done so I installed the binary from mozilla.org in /opt/ and symlinked to that, seems to be better so far. This is what I used to do to get the latest version anyway, so if it works will just stay this way. If not I'll get on bugzilla and pursue that. Now that's interesting. I've been having the same problem with Seamonkey (the integrated Mozilla suite), and I have less trouble in general when I build my own and install it in /opt. (The AR and SWF plugins don't work there, for some reason, but all the others do.) It never occurred to me that the installation location would be involved - I'll have to try that and see how it works. Thanks! mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Seeking advice about auth/home serving
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Ross Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If all your doing is serving up mount maps or netgroups then ldap is over kill, definitely don't put passwords in nis (or ldap) use kerberos for those. A small user base can be handled more easily via nis then ldap you don't need to put passwords in passwd use kerberos for those. Maybe it's just me, but I find sentences like the above two to be terribly confusing since they lack any punctuation to separate the separables. Since I am just learning about this area, I need all the clarity I can get. Perhaps others are in a similar situation, so, please use punctuation of some kind - separate lines, commas, semicolons, etc. Thanks. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] DHCP static hosts and subnet configuration
Dear Paul.
You can assign multiple host blocks for the same NIC, using a fixed-address
directive in one but not in other. dhcpd will try for the best match. If the
request arrives from subnet-B, and the fixed address is on that net, then
that's the block that gets used. Otherwise, the less specific block will be
used. E.g.,
host myhost {
hardware ethernet 11:22:33:44:55:66;
fixed-address 172.16.1.1;
^^ modified
}
host myhost-roam {
hardware ethernet 11:22:33:44:55:66;
}
Hmm, that does not really work on two different subnets. I have tried
to add a host declaration with fixed-address on the 'static' Subnet B
and one on the dynamic Subnet A with just the MAC address and
ddns-domain-name.
The client won't obtain an IP address on subnet A unless I add a
fixed-address declaration to it, too.
Marcus
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Re: [CentOS] DHCP static hosts and subnet configuration
Dear John, In reading your post a couple more times, I think I see what you are after. Elaborate a little more on what you want exactly. You want the NIC to get an addy from the dhcpd server from the Subnet A address pool and then want to also obtain an addy from the Subnet B Fixed addy pool so the clients nics has two Ips? Correct? The client can just connect to two networks handled by the DHCP server (on different NICs of course ;)) On Subnet A it should receive a dynamic address within the range and on Subnet be it should just obtain the address defined in it's host declaration. This I am not sure can be done with dhcpd. However you can specify NIC to fixed static addys and the nic harware address in the dhcp.conf file. How does that work? Best Regards Marcus ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT: is parted reliable?
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 12:06 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: A bit of common sense comes in handy. Talking about something that the developers of a component need to weight in on is definitely best suited to the upstream lists for the component. If you hit specific issues with the implementation on CentOS, thats different. Hm. CentOS is a renamed, compiled from source, of the Red Hat sources with a CentOS logo inserted at appropriate places plus, perhaps other changes as required. Having said that and your comment above seems to leave *very* little to discuss on this list. Since *any* Linux based distribution includes hundreds of packages, it is my very humble opinion that this list is the starting place for, especially the very new people or those with little time to *really* learn the administration of an operating system such as CentOS. I would would expect the maintainers of this list to understand this. I have been running Red Hat since I purchased Linux Unleashed, First Edition, Copyright 1995 with one CD that contained three complete distributions with sources. Look at the expansion of the base distribution now. Personally, I'm *way* behind! Random drive by surveys, and request for comments on a blog posts etc are definitely a waste of time for *this* list. Of course this crap should *not* be tolerated, including spam. Enough soap box from me. Bob -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT: is parted reliable?
2008/10/15 Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: David Mackintosh wrote: How off-topic is it to ask precisely what is on-topic for this list if questions and discussions of the included components belong on the support mechanisms for those individual parts, and the rest (ie anaconda and friends) probably belongs in the upstream vendor's forums? A bit of common sense comes in handy. Talking about something that the developers of a component need to weight in on is definitely best suited to the upstream lists for the component. If you hit specific issues with the implementation on CentOS, thats different. Random drive by surveys, and request for comments on a blog posts etc are definitely a waste of time for *this* list. -- Karanbir, OK, you're right, although I'd be more flexible, the subject was prefixed with an OT:. I didn't ask what do you prefer to be president of USA if Obama or McCain, neither I was offering a way of improving sexual power :) But again, if you put the rules in that way, ok you're right. Sorry for annoyances. -- -- Open Kairos http://www.openkairos.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin - ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] formatting large volume
Just pvcreate the whole disk and forgo partitioning it. Then create a vg out of it and start creating lvs. Hey Ross, I thought it was best practice to create an LVM partition such that the disk could be recognizable under all circumstances such as if the volume was moved? Is that not really best practice anymore? I'm not Ross, but I'll chime in: I heartily recommend creating an LVM partition rather than using the entire disk. It will cover you for those times when you are booting off the Rescue or Install CD. When anaconda(?) sees an LVM formatted disk, it thinks it's garbage because there's no valid partition table. It then asks you if you want to format the disk (or words to that effect; I forget the precise details), with the default set to YES (WTH? Default option is the most dangerous? That's nutty). From experience I can tell you that selecting Yes is really really bad for your LVM meta data. Let's just say it took a while to restore the 1TB of data the time I miss-clicked YES from a finger twitch at the wrong moment while moving the mouse. Sigh Craig Miskell === Attention: The information contained in this message and/or attachments from AgResearch Limited is intended only for the persons or entities to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipients is prohibited by AgResearch Limited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. === ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] unsuscribe
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Re: [CentOS] unsuscribe
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Miguel Varas A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please I want unsuscribe for this list thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Please (and this goes for most if not all mailing lists) view all headers associated with any mail to the list and you will find the following. X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org List-Id: CentOS mailing list centos.centos.org List-Unsubscribe: http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Archive: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos List-Post: mailto:centos@centos.org List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HTH (you and others who are wondering) Regards Andrew. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] unsuscribe
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Spook ZA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Miguel Varas A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please I want unsuscribe for this list thanks Please (and this goes for most if not all mailing lists) view all headers associated with any mail to the list and you will find the following. Or pay attention when you sign up for a listmanager list like this and RTFSUP - all the information to unsubscribe is right there, not to mention in the page at the other end of the link in the footer of every expletives-deleted message posted to the list. I moderate over 300 Yahoo groups and belong to a (way smaller) number of email lists, and I've never seen one where the instructions for how to unsubscribe were not included somewhere in every post or article sent, and yet I've also witnessed the utterly amazing ability of people who read the groups/lists not to be able to read the unsubscribe instructions or links in the messages they read. Foo. /rant mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Postfix problem
John Plemons wrote: Try installing WebMin and configure Postfix using their interface and see if that works for you... It is menu driven and a quick and easy way to configure your server... john Paolo Supino wrote: Hi I have a CentOS 4.2 server with postfix. The problem I'm having is that postfix insists on using $myhostname in the from field even if I instruct it to use $mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf or even if I hard code the domain name into $myorigin. What am I missing? BTW: postconf shows output shows that $myorigin is configured to use $mydomain, or the domain name itself ... -- ttyl Paolo ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.173 / Virus Database: 270.8.0/1726 - Release Date: 10/15/2008 7:29 AM ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Hi Webmin is installed and the changes were initially carried out through webmin, but after I noticed that there is no change in the from field I checked to see if webmin changes the right file (it did) and also tried to set main.cf manually (which didn't help). -- TIA Paolo ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Postfix problem
mouss wrote: Paolo Supino a écrit : Hi I have a CentOS 4.2 server with postfix. The problem I'm having is that postfix insists on using $myhostname in the from field even if I Prove that it is postfix that does so, and not Sendmail. show logs. instruct it to use $mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf or even if I hard code the domain name into $myorigin. What am I missing? BTW: postconf shows output shows that $myorigin is configured to use $mydomain, or the domain name itself ... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Hi I didn't think of checking if Sendmail is the one sending the email or not. I will have to check this out. I will only have access to this server next Wednesday. So until then I can't check anything or post anything ... == TIA Paolo ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] OT: is parted reliable?
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 12:45 -0700, bruce wrote: say bob... it appears some would like to have the proverbial question how can i do X removed as well, particularly if X isn't somehow a direct centos issue. however, it might be that X is indeed a package in the centos mirror!! for my $0.02 worth, asking a question never hurts, and you can always choose to not reply, while someone else might repsond with the answer, which then might even help someone else who's later searching through the archives!!! IMHO, other than *very* newbies, I would expect people to at least try Google, then apropos and man if appropriate. My point was that the base distribution is now so large, that many people are overwhelmed. Such as: I've just installed CentOS. my X doesn't work. Now what do I do to fix it. A valid question needing a valid answer. List maintainers can do what I do. Skip the thread. All too many people just need a place to *start* or a gentle *hint*. Just *how* many lists are we supposed to be members of? Bob -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT: is parted reliable?
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Bob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed CentOS. my X doesn't work. Now what do I do to fix it. A valid question needing a valid answer. List maintainers can do what I do. Skip the thread. But asked in a totally inappropriate fashion. The question should be posted as: I've just installed CentOS 5.2 32-bit on an XXX CPU machine with xxGB of memory and xxGB of disk (in an LVM or whatever). My X doesn't work - when I try it I get this: disturbing problem output I've read the man pages and Googled for this, but nothing shows up that explains it (or my search criteria yadda yadda blah weren't an effective choice). Even moderately experienced Linux people like me need at least that much information just to know if I know enough to answer, and eventually this information should come out anyway. Putting it up front shows a) the user knows enough to ask a decent question and b) more experienced users who might be able to answer should have enough either to answer or ask more specific questions leading to an answer. This is basic list etiquette, and in the last two weeks I've seen more questions in the first form above (Bob's) that required digging in toward the second form (my example) before anything was forthcoming. That's a waste of the list's space and the user's time, if we read them at all. I've made noises about this from time to time, but now I just don't care enough to answer them any more because, as little as I know from my ten years with Linux, almost 2 with CentOS and not quite 29 with computers in general, I'm not willing to waste my time or delve into my experience to answer such illiterate questions. If I did, the answer would probably be RTFM, STFW or something like that (pretty much what I've been told :-). I'm beginning to understand why Vandaman was so stiff about his responses, and the more BS we allow in, the more we'll get. This is NOT to say that newbies and newcomers to the list should never ask questions, but for heaven's sake - do some research FIRST, and then provide as much useful information as you can when you DO ask. You're supposed to read the list (or lurk, I suppose) for at least a MONTH before asking a question, just so you can get a feel for what works best and how people interact (read the list etiquette rules linked at the page at the bottom of this, and every, post). And, yes, Read The Flicking Manuals, Search The Frigging Web and THEN ask if you don't have an answer. And, yes, even I (sounds grandiose but I don't mean it that way...) sometimes miss one of those, or ask something dumb - it happens. When you've shown that you know how to ask, preferably more often than not, you get some courtesy from those who know because you have made the effort. Sometimes searching the web is trickier than it seems, and one query might not give you everything if you don't ask quite right. /rant2 mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: unsuscribe
on 10-15-2008 12:34 PM MHR spake the following: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Spook ZA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Miguel Varas A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please I want unsuscribe for this list thanks Please (and this goes for most if not all mailing lists) view all headers associated with any mail to the list and you will find the following. Or pay attention when you sign up for a listmanager list like this and RTFSUP - all the information to unsubscribe is right there, not to mention in the page at the other end of the link in the footer of every expletives-deleted message posted to the list. I moderate over 300 Yahoo groups and belong to a (way smaller) number of email lists, and I've never seen one where the instructions for how to unsubscribe were not included somewhere in every post or article sent, and yet I've also witnessed the utterly amazing ability of people who read the groups/lists not to be able to read the unsubscribe instructions or links in the messages they read. Foo. /rant Even worse is when people just mark something as spam when they are tired of it! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT: is parted reliable?
I'm beginning to understand why Vandaman was so stiff about his responses, and the more BS we allow in, the more we'll get. And then those who genuinely need the help will be lost in a sea of random threads. Mailing lists need to be reigned in a bit tighter; for those of you wanting to talk about random stuff, or wanting to talk about tangential topics, you should be visiting forums like linuxforums.org. The argument of choose what you read is garbage in my opinion as mailing lists are a pull medium. Subscribers are receiving all messages. They don't get a say in that unless they completely unsubscribe. On forums, you can pick and choose at your leisure. That's the point of them. -- Spiro Harvey Knossos Networks Ltd 021-295-1923www.knossos.net.nz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] new list proposal
One thing that we are often blamed for is trying to stifle conversations and to discourage people from commenting / contributing / encouraging conversations. And that cant be further from the truth, really. We are all pro-community ( and when I say we, I mean everyone - including the contributors, developers, admins, users, abusers and hey upstream too ). However, one thing that does get in the way, often, and something that we all feel creates a higher 'noise' ratio is conversations on this list about semi-related stuff, but not something that directly contributes to the general users of CentOS. Conversations that specifically address four areas: - technologies - best practices - deployment strategies and tools - management strategies and tools And to better cater to these conversations, as well as further encourage such content, we'd like to propose creating a 'centos-tech' list. Over a period of time, we would like to see the CentOS list become a more user help and distro specific list, with generic conversations moving to the centos-tech list. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] new list proposal
Karanbir Singh wrote: And to better cater to these conversations, as well as further encourage such content, we'd like to propose creating a 'centos-tech' list. Also, all comments are welcome! If there is a general feeling that this would help, then we will go ahead and setup the new list in the next few days. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] new list proposal
Karanbir Singh wrote: However, one thing that does get in the way, often, and something that we all feel creates a higher 'noise' ratio is conversations on this list about semi-related stuff, but not something that directly contributes to the general users of CentOS. Conversations that specifically address four areas: - technologies - best practices - deployment strategies and tools - management strategies and tools And to better cater to these conversations, as well as further encourage such content, we'd like to propose creating a 'centos-tech' list. Over a period of time, we would like to see the CentOS list become a more user help and distro specific list, with generic conversations moving to the centos-tech list. Sounds like a great idea, :) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] new list proposal
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:52:44 +0100 Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And to better cater to these conversations, as well as further encourage such content, we'd like to propose creating a 'centos-tech' list. Sounds like a whale of a plan. -- 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] new list proposal
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008, Frank Cox wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:52:44 +0100 Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And to better cater to these conversations, as well as further encourage such content, we'd like to propose creating a 'centos-tech' list. Sounds like a whale of a plan. Personally I prefer the more general lists rather than splitting off into a bunch of more specific ones. I often learn things by reading messages that I would see on more targeted lists. The more general lists also seem more likely to engender a feeling of community (the linux-sxs.org nee Caldera list is a case in point). Perhaps my viewpoint is a bit skewed since I use an e-mail program, mutt, that makes it very easy to see articles by thread, and to delete everything in a thread with a single ctrl-D. I use Thunderbird on occassion to read messages where I know they are likely to be HTML and have long links to click, but GUIs are far too slow and cumbersome to deal with hundreds of messages a day, particularly in my postmaster and security folders which may go to thousands of messages in the morning. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved. -- R.A. Heinlein ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] new list proposal
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:25:24 -0700 Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I prefer the more general lists rather than splitting off into a bunch of more specific ones. I often learn things by reading messages that I would see on more targeted lists. The more general lists also seem more likely to engender a feeling of community (the linux-sxs.org nee Caldera list is a case in point). I tend to agree with you, actually. The Fedora list, for example, seems to work fine as far as I can see (most of the time, anyway), and I just skip over anything that doesn't look interesting to me. However, I can appreciate that some folks may not want to deal with the noise and, when it comes to Centos, where else are you going to take it in that case? I suspect that most of the discussion and question ask-and-answer stuff currently dealt with here will migrate to the new list within a short period of time, simply because it will be more free-wheeling and easy to post to. This list will become much less active and relevant if that occurs. Accordingly, I plan to subscribe to both lists when the second one is created and hope to continue to learn stuff. -- 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
