[CentOS] Re: PPP server on Centos
on 4-18-2008 3:22 AM gopinath spake the following: how to configure PPP server on Linux Please Help me out . Regards, Gopinath M Signal Networks Pvt. Ltd. Smile... it increases your face value! Did you try Google? http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=ppp+server+linuxbtnG=Google+Search Gives you many howto's, just read a few and you will be set. Give a man a fish, and he eats once. Teach a man to fish and he eats forever! -- 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
[CentOS] Re: vfs objects = recycle
on 4-25-2008 8:04 AM John spake the following: [public] vfs objects = recycle recycle:repository = Recycle Bin -- Just want to be clear if I use the vfs recycle option does recycle:repository = Recycle Bin get put into the the public directory? As I am having a problem with deleting files on a client and then can't empty the trash because of permission problems. Will this solve this issue or do I have problems elsewhere? Keep in mind this is a mixed node network with windows and linux. I'm taking pointers from any one with heavy samba experiance. As I am no samba guy. Also pointers on clustering samba with DFS. It gets put in the root of the share that you activate it in. I am not sure if you can make it a global option, but maybe. I'm not sure of what your issue is, when you say empty the trash do you mean deleting files from Recycle Bin? -- 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
[CentOS] Re: dying hd on live legacy system...
on 4-25-2008 10:35 AM Jason Pyeron spake the following: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Larsen Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 1:16 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] dying hd on live legacy system... On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Jason Pyeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have an old 3.x server whose hd is dying (kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61) and accessing certain files just crashes the system with a reboot. We have moved as many files to a nfs server as we could so simply. The system has been heavily modified (all using rpms) from baseline. What is the most practical method to replace the hard drive? Install another drive (same size or larger), boot from CD in rescue mode and use the dd utility to copy the old drive image to the new disk (example: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb). However, the failing hardware could make this problematic. Then remove the dying disk and install the new disk on the cable where the old disk was so that the new disk is now /dev/hda. Tried this, I should have been more clear above. When I access certain sectors the machine reboots. Ideas on how to do the duplication in this scenario? If you are lucky enough to succeed consider mirroring with Linux software RAID or at least make a full backup. Did you try ddrescue? http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html -- 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
[CentOS] Re: vfs objects = recycle
on 4-25-2008 11:46 AM John spake the following: On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 11:13 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: on 4-25-2008 8:04 AM John spake the following: [public] vfs objects = recycle recycle:repository = Recycle Bin -- Just want to be clear if I use the vfs recycle option does recycle:repository = Recycle Bin get put into the the public directory? As I am having a problem with deleting files on a client and then can't empty the trash because of permission problems. Will this solve this issue or do I have problems elsewhere? Keep in mind this is a mixed node network with windows and linux. I'm taking pointers from any one with heavy samba experiance. As I am no samba guy. Also pointers on clustering samba with DFS. It gets put in the root of the share that you activate it in. I am not sure if you can make it a global option, but maybe. That's where it gets put. After editing the conf file and putting the option in. I'm not sure of what your issue is, when you say empty the trash do you mean deleting files from Recycle Bin? Logged in as root on a linux client using share mode can't delete a file or folder when made by root on the samba server in one of the shares. That is using the user nobody. Would that be correct as user nobody only can't delete file made by root n the samba server. I suspect after really thinking about it I'll be much better of adding the linux client to Active Directory and do all authentication that way to solve everything. Then later on setup samba to serve the Windows user profiles. I'm not on AD yet, hoping to put that bullet off for a while. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: vfs objects = recycle
on 4-28-2008 4:24 PM John spake the following: John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Silva Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 1:10 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Re: vfs objects = recycle on 4-25-2008 11:46 AM John spake the following: On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 11:13 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: on 4-25-2008 8:04 AM John spake the following: [public] vfs objects = recycle recycle:repository = Recycle Bin -- Just want to be clear if I use the vfs recycle option does recycle:repository = Recycle Bin get put into the the public directory? As I am having a problem with deleting files on a client and then can't empty the trash because of permission problems. Will this solve this issue or do I have problems elsewhere? Keep in mind this is a mixed node network with windows and linux. I'm taking pointers from any one with heavy samba experiance. As I am no samba guy. Also pointers on clustering samba with DFS. It gets put in the root of the share that you activate it in. I am not sure if you can make it a global option, but maybe. That's where it gets put. After editing the conf file and putting the option in. I'm not sure of what your issue is, when you say empty the trash do you mean deleting files from Recycle Bin? Logged in as root on a linux client using share mode can't delete a file or folder when made by root on the samba server in one of the shares. That is using the user nobody. Would that be correct as user nobody only can't delete file made by root n the samba server. I suspect after really thinking about it I'll be much better of adding the linux client to Active Directory and do all authentication that way to solve everything. Then later on setup samba to serve the Windows user profiles. I'm not on AD yet, hoping to put that bullet off for a while. I kinda Beg to differ on that bullet. MS Admins know Active Directory is about the holey grail of authentication in corporate networking. Single Sign Authentication says it all. I have reliazed I am spinning in the wind to have two different auth mechanisms. My scope of view is automate any and everything that can be. Consolodate services to save money (microsoft licence fees) Means actually only two MS servers Primary and Secondary Domain Controllers (PDC and BDC). I left out LDAP Servers for a reason. Not so easy to use and setup versus AD. Just postponing the learning to a less busy time. Maybe with some experimentation time before going live. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: OpenSSH Version
on 4-28-2008 4:49 PM Walter Hansen spake the following: I see that currently CENTOS is using 4.3p2 which does not support the new Match command in the sshd_config. I'm not sure, but I think that was added with 4.4. I was wondering how long it would be before we get to use this feature? Maybe CentOS 6. Or the better answer -- When upstream decides to release it, or the maintainers deem it fit or necessary and add it to plus. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: case insensitive file system
on 4-30-2008 7:07 AM Ruslan Sivak spake the following: John R Pierce wrote: Ruslan Sivak wrote: We have an application that was build on a windows platform that expects a case insensitive file system. Is there a way to set one up in CentOS? NTFS should work, I think, but I feel uneasy using that under Linux. NTFS is not whats case insensitive, its WINDOWS thats case insensitive. you'll need to fix that application to either use all monocase names or to be self-consistent enough to run properly on a case sensitive system. I will look into fixing the application, but it may not be possible. There must be a filesystem that I can use. Mac's have HFS+ which can be case insensitive. Aren't Macs pretty much Linux? Isn't there a similar filesystem availalbe for linux? I wouldn't run the whole system on it, just the portion that hosts the app. Russ I think that it is the OS that is case sensitive or not, not the filesystem. Posix systems are case sensitive, and since Windows isn't a posix system it doesn't have to be. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: OFF-TOPIC: Job opportunity in Augusta Georgia
on 4-30-2008 7:08 AM Jim Perrin spake the following: WAY Off topic here, but if anyone's in the Augusta, Georgia area and wants to work as a web developer(css, html, flash, php, photoshop and the other usual goodies), we've got a job opening. If you like abuse, long hours, low pay, and lots of stress, we have the perfect job for you. I'm married so I already have all of those fine benefits!! -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Slightly OT? - How do I set up Win98 to access a printer on my CentOS box?
on 5-2-2008 11:11 AM MHR spake the following: I have a WinXP guest under VMWare on my CentOS 5.1 host and it can access the CentOS printer(s) just fine. However, I also have a Win98 box on the LAN that I would like to be able to print on the CentOS printer. When I try to connect to the printer, Win98 tells me that it can't find the network...? Any suggestions? (This slightly really is - it _is_ directly related to CentOS, unlike my previous FC8 post) Thanks. mhr Can the win98 box resolve the Centos host in any way? Remember that older lanman clients can only see smb names of 12 characters and less. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB
on 5-5-2008 11:41 AM Ross S. W. Walker spake the following: Florin Andrei wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: jfs is supposedly excellent if you have a lot of small files like a mail/news server Hm, last time I tested ReiseFS turned out to be the best FS for that situation. But it's been a while, perhaps things have changed a bit. Yeah, but reiserfs is all but dead these days. At least I wouldn't plan a long-term deployment around it... And Hans Reiser's legal woes are deeper than ever. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/28/2243232from=rss http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9930857-7.html But here in California a man can spend most of his life in appeals. -- 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
[CentOS] Way OT Re: OT- Re: ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB
on 5-5-2008 3:24 PM John R Pierce spake the following: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: No doubt! The worse part is I don't believe it was premeditated. I think she came over to drop off the kids and told him oh by the way I'm taking the children to live with me in Russia, at that point he went into a fit of anger and threw here against the pillar causing a fatal head injury. I followed the trial blogs day by day on the SF Chronicle site. His wife was very close to gaining her US medical license (she had been a doctor in Russia), had lined up a good job, and various other indications of planning for a long term life here, nothing indicating any plans to leave for Russia. rant The fact that he could be convicted with little to no real evidence, but someone like O.J. Simpson could be acquitted with what seemed like a smoking gun still in his hands just shows how money makes the law go away in the US. /rant -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Subject: yum update did not update kernel on one box
on 5-6-2008 2:49 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake the following: On 5/6/08, Ralph Angenendt ra+centos AT br-online.de wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: If there is some place I can check in a yum database or RPM database on her box, to verify the kernel version that's really installed (probably the original one), please let me know where that is. Thanks much! Lanny rpm -qa kernel* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qa kernel* kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 kernel-2.6.18-8.el5 kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -a Linux compaq1300.HOMELAN 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP Thu Mar 15 19:57:35 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ Ralph: Thank you for the rpm command and the syntax! That confirms what I have been seeing the past few days, that no updates are available! The kernel-headers for the latest kernel is there, along with the latest kernel. However, it is not shown in the GRUB menu when I boot the box, and, the box boots the old kernel. My knowledge of Linux, obviously, is very limited. How can I correct this, so the box will boot the latest kernel? TIA! Lanny It sounds like the last kernel upgrade didn't finish the %post% scripts. The easiest thing to try would be to rpm -e the new kernel and try a yum upgrade again. Another thing to check... Is there a symlink from /boot/grub/menu.lst to /boot/grub/grub.conf? I have had that on my systems since time began and maybe it is a requirement for things to work right. Just a guess. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: yum update did not update kernel on one box
on 5-7-2008 3:19 PM Kai Schaetzl spake the following: Lanny Marcus wrote on Wed, 07 May 2008 15:10:58 -0500: Kai: I am not using Windows Boot Manager. Grub comes up, as on the 2 boxes, where things are working properly. Just to be sure, it's really grub? You get a somewhat blueish screen that says booting centos in x seconds, press any key to see options or so? I think there's also a CentOS symbol on it, but am not sure. We have to be absolutely sure about that. And if you select Windows from that boot screen, does that boot right into Windows or do you get another boot menu that lists only Windows? Questions: (a) Can I copy /boot/grub/grub.conf on my box and replace that file on my wife's box, with my version? Would that work OK? Worth a try? No, this wouldn't help, because the grub.conf that *we know of* is fine. It's just not getting used, because you are booting from another one. AFAIK, grub cannot embed a boot menu in the MBR (Master Boot Record), so that information must be coming from somewhere else. You have *two* grub.conf's (and two /boot partitions) on the machine AFAIS. You would have to *merge* the two: you need the options for booting Windows from the first one and all the other options from the second one. AFAIK, the MBR on your disk does not boot from hd(0,2), but from another partition. You have to find out which one that is and change the grub.conf on that partition accordingly. The caveat of this is that you would have to do this each time the kernel changes or you would need to change a bit more, so that this becomes the new boot partition. Another option would be to grub-install again and overwrite the current information in the MBR, so that it then boots from hd(0,2). I'm not confident enough about both options to talk you thru. Maybe I'm missing other possibilities why that happens, but the basic problem is that your machine does not boot from that hd(0,2), but with information from elsewhere. There was confusion on my part, when I installed Windows XP on my wife's box. Hers was the first one I installed Win XP on, which I'd never installed before and it ended up getting installed more than once. Did you install it after CentOS or before it? You will need to make a list of all partitions. Not sure what the best way to do this would be. Probably fdisk. Run fdisk, then type p (for printing the partition table), then leave it with q. Be careful, as printing the table is only the least dangerous action in fdisk! Kai Fdisk -l ( lower case L )should list ALL partitions and their respective devices without worrying about breaking something. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: OT: YUM, RPM and PGP keys
on 5-12-2008 5:54 AM Jason Pyeron spake the following: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ralph Angenendt Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 7:55 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT: YUM, RPM and PGP keys Jason Pyeron wrote: I was just about to ask the same, but for packages I just rolled. Is there a cmd line swith or env var? Why not sign packages you roll? It really isn't that hard. RPM does have It's a throw away project on a throwaway vm instance. issues with large keys, though - Key on the top1000 list aren't usable :) - I think 64kb is the maximum size. And: Setting gpgcheck to 0 in yum.conf should disable global gpg checking, you can turn it on for each repository in the .repo files under /etc/yum.repos.d/. So the choice of how you shoot yourself in the foot with unsigned packages is up to you :) But there are no (temporary) options from the command line? I haven't found any. Something like --nosign or --ignore-nokey would be great. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Reseted net statistics
on 5-11-2008 2:56 AM happymaster23 spake the following: Hi all, sometimes I�m checking status of my server with phpSysInfo, always is all right, but at May 8 I was experienced a big deviation. My machine was online for 12 days, but net statistics are reseted. I was checked /proc/net/dev and there are reseted net statistics too. How is this possible? Just before I was experienced this problem I was updating two packages with yum (perl-HTML-Parser.i386 3.56-5.el5 and epel-release.noarch 5-3). In /var/log/messages is nothing about it. At the same day someone attemped to log in to ssh (attack was about 10 hours long, but its impossible to break my server - Keep fooling yourself. Difficult to breal into-- maybe, but impossible -- I really doubt it. Every server can be broken into. Just some of them aren't worth the time it might take. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Curiosity when installing CentOS 5.1 in addition to W98 WXP
on 5-12-2008 10:17 AM MHR spake the following: I got half way through an installation of CentOS on a box that has Window$ 98 in the first partition and Window$ XP in the second, where CentOS was designated for partitions 3 (/boot - 128MB) and 4 (/) and had some strange results. During the install, I changed the default OS to boot to Window$ (because I rarely use this machine, but others who don't have a clue use Wxx), but then while the packages were downloading, I left the machine alone. When I came back, it had rebooted to the DVD, so I pulled it out and rebooted again. It came up in the Windows boot selection screen (W98 or WXP), and never stopped at grub. Should I not have set it to go to Windows by default, or is this something different? Thanks. mhr It might not have finished the install, and something made it reboot before it had written the grub records. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: broken GFS
on 5-12-2008 2:20 PM Doug Tucker spake the following: Tru, I work at a university. They don't provide enough money for test environments :). Just kinda odd, last time kernel update, gfs updated at the same time so all was well. But twice now kernel has upgraded with no GFS so it went bye-bye. Is the GFS being installed, compiled against particular kernel headers, or could I just copy the /fs/gfs and /fs/gfs_locking to the new kernel /lib/modules (or symlink for that matter) and be lucky enough it would work? Then don't turn on automatic updates. That way you can verify that the new modules are in place before setting that kernel as default and re-booting. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: broken GFS
on 5-12-2008 3:47 PM Linux spake the following: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Tru Huynh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:40:22AM +0300, Linux wrote: What a coincidence. That is the 1st time I live such a thing. Well, show me a way to prove. /var/log/messages ? Only a small part of it. This log is after update reboot: May 11 16:06:03 x kernel: XFS: failed to read root inode nothing more? Well, that is the only unexpected part. Just to show that XFS module was loaded for WRONG kernel. As you said, you newer saw before. According to this, there is a mystery in May 11 16:06:03 because there WAS a kmod_xfs but it was 53.1.14, not 53.1.19 as updated kernel. too bad you rebooted 1 hour before the kernel-xfs module update. When was kernel-xfs module updated in repository? Just that time? If so too bad CentOS folks do not update every piece of kernel as a whole in repositories. Where is integrity? If not, yum update does not update everything at once. I have to run yum update twice maybe more. First it will load kernel then see that a new kernel is available, will go and bring its modules... Still, it is a bit annoying and confusing. I am beginning to think whether XFS is really supported in CentOS :) XFS is an add-on module that the CentOS developers added because people wanted it. The official filesystem of CentOS is the same one that upstream has in RHEL -- EXT3. To see if a filesystem is truly supported by a distro is to see if one can select it at install time. Everything else is added on for someone else's benefit. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: OT: YUM, RPM and PGP keys
on 5-13-2008 4:57 AM Tom Diehl spake the following: On Mon, 12 May 2008, Cliff Nadler wrote: on 5-12-2008 5:54 AM Jason Pyeron spake the following: -Original Message- Behalf Of Ralph Angenendt Jason Pyeron wrote: I was just about to ask the same, but for packages I just rolled. Is there a cmd line swith or env var? Why not sign packages you roll? It really isn't that hard. RPM does have It's a throw away project on a throwaway vm instance. issues with large keys, though - Key on the top1000 list aren't usable :) - I think 64kb is the maximum size. And: Setting gpgcheck to 0 in yum.conf should disable global gpg checking, you can turn it on for each repository in the .repo files under /etc/yum.repos.d/. So the choice of how you shoot yourself in the foot with unsigned packages is up to you :) But there are no (temporary) options from the command line? I haven't found any. Something like --nosign or --ignore-nokey would be great. I generally copy /etc/yum.conf to /etc/yum.localinstall.conf and change the gpgcheck flag to 0, then use yum -c /etc/yum.localinstall.conf localinstall package to install any unsigned packages. I've only used it with packages from a know good source (mostly locally built). Ummm, from the yum man page: --nogpgcheck Run with gpg signature checking disabled. Configuration Option: gpgcheck Does that do what you want? Regards, That works on CentOS 5, but I don't think it was an option before. Oh well, time to plan some migrations anyway. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Partly OT: Is there a DVD (or other) firmware flash download program for CentOS/Linux?
on 5-13-2008 9:04 AM Stephen John Smoogen spake the following: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:27 PM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 23:21 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 18:27 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:21 PM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:49 PM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip NB: This also seem to apply to HD diags/repair. I had a Seagate SATA drive that developed a couple bad sectors. I downloaded the dos diags and it successfully repaired the bad sectors. Smartctl tests now report no bad sectors. It was only two to start with, so the efffort seemed worthwhile. Been about a week now - results good so far. Thanks. mhr snip sig stuff BTW, there is a freedos version available which I've not used. But I do have DR DOS images available that I've used. WFM. HTH P.S. The Seagate software includes its own DOS OS for those of you contemplating any HD repair. It seems to be generic and it may be that other utilities would work with it as well. YMMV. FreeDos is DR DOS these days. Some Vendors use FreeDOS as its open to hack for your hardware.. some vendors use Windows only apps that require the Windows 'graphics' to work. Its all in the court of the vendor of hardware you bought. [Dell has a project to upgrade BIOS's in Linux which works for most of their shipped hardware... I really wish IBM and HP would have joined them as it would make my life a lot easier.] I have several HP servers that have linux runnable bios upgrades, and also alternate boot options like CD image or from flash drive. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: broken GFS
on 5-14-2008 1:48 PM Doug Tucker spake the following: This is linked from the CentOS FAQ: http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html Akemi LOL! This is just TOO good. 1. Because it is proper Usenet Etiquette. ...all but dead...I run a usenet server here, had 3 logins last month...user base is over 4000... 2.We use a good news reader like Forte Agent. OMG. I haven't used a usenet reader in 10 years for anything. Assumed Forte Agent went out of development years ago. I'll stop there, there is not a single thing on that page I can agree with anymore, technology, email and the web have moved on beyond that ideology of old. I'm already at about 50% of the time reading email on my iphone mail app. Like it or not for the religious users (and I'll count myself there in many categories), eventually most of our mail will be read on a handheld device. So the 2 line preview pane at the top before deciding to atually open the message becomes very relevant, which does not lend itself useful in bottom posting. I can't remember the last time I saw a desktop user regardless of client not read their mail using the preview pane. They need to just rename that, as people even rarely click to open the message anymore. Again, not good when bottom posting. I got poo-poo'd off about my GFS/kernel release schedule, for being in some small minority. So, where are bottom posters, in terms of majority these days? Maybe it's time, to update with the times? Go ahead, let the bashing begin! I'm off to another building, taking my email in my pocket with me... Gentlemen! Please stop! I would say this -- Post in whatever format you feel like posting in. Everyone else who does not like that format is free to ignore or answer the poster. If everyone ignores it, they will change or move on. If someone answers them, they will be helped, and probably still move on. These [EMAIL PROTECTED] slapping threads get boring real fast, and the iPhone user is running up his cell time. Maybe you both can go on a skype call and do some real shouting! ;-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
[CentOS] Re: A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues
on 5-14-2008 12:34 PM Alfred von Campe spake the following: On May 14, 2008, at 10:58, Alfred von Campe wrote: In the mean time, anyone have any info on Kermit for CentOS 5? We have some Kermit scripts sent to us by one of our vendors, so we can't just easily migrate to another serial communications tool. I was able to compile the latest Kermit from sources and put the resulting binary in a network accessible location. This should be good enough for now. But I wonder why Kermit is no longer available. The next missing package is DDD? I was able to download the RPM from the EPEL repo (I do not want to enable that repo on my systems) and install it on my systems. But again, I wonder why that package is no longer available? Both DDD and Kermit were part of the base repo in CentOS 4.X. Alfred CentOS usually creates whatever upstream gives out. You would have to see why RedHat stopped putting it in, or see if you can convince CentOS developers to add it to centosplus. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: tar spanning
on 5-14-2008 11:16 AM MHR spake the following: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:54 AM, CentOS List [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a directory with 18GB worth of files and I would like to tar span and burn it into a few DVDs after that. How can I do this in command line? Thanks Regards Am I the only one who finds it disturbing that someone who is only identified as CentOS List and who clearly is not is asking a question like this of the (actual) CentOS List? Or is there another way to read this? Please identify yourself and don't pretend to be this list mhr People are so afraid that someone will be able to identify them through newsgroup postings or harvest their address for spam. So what if someone googles my name and finds out I help people on a few lists! Makes me look real bad, doesn't it? -- 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
[CentOS] Re: OT: Top Posting
on 5-14-2008 2:48 PM Doug Tucker spake the following: On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 15:56 -0500, Scott Nelson wrote: On May 14, 2008, at 3:48 PM, Doug Tucker wrote: ...all but dead...I run a usenet server here, had 3 logins last month...user base is over 4000... Usenet is almost dead but e-mail lists abound (you are using one). Same concepts. I know, but my point was, since we all use email to read email lists, let's get off the old usenet etiquette, and use email etiquette, which you will find yourself in the very minute minority that replies bottom post. Don't say we all. I am reading this list through gmane with a newsreader. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: tar spanning
on 5-14-2008 3:20 PM MHR spake the following: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Scott Silva ssilva-m4n3GYAQT2lWk0Htik3J/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People are so afraid that someone will be able to identify them through newsgroup postings or harvest their address for spam. So what if someone googles my name and finds out I help people on a few lists! I'm just hoping the foot-in-mouth postings I've made here aren't as google-able as some of the more intelligent stuff that comes up under my name. I'm already infamous, and not just on this list. Do I care? Why? Will it put me on a no-fly list (probably too late... ;^)? Makes me look real bad, doesn't it? Oh, yeah! ;^) mhr You know that the more stupid the rant, or more embarrassing, the higher it goes in the page rank! ;-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
[CentOS] Re: tar spanning
on 5-14-2008 7:31 PM CentOS List spake the following: snip People are so afraid that someone will be able to identify them through newsgroup postings or harvest their address for spam. So what if someone googles my name and finds out I help people on a few lists! Makes me look real bad, doesn't it? No. I am on a few lists and each list with a different email address so that I can sort them out correctly. If you people don’t wish to help out, its fine, just ignore my mails. It will be nice to stop making fun of me. Thanks Much easier to use one box and sort message by their source. Or read them through gmane with a newsreader. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: tar spanning
on 5-14-2008 7:31 PM CentOS List spake the following: snip People are so afraid that someone will be able to identify them through newsgroup postings or harvest their address for spam. So what if someone googles my name and finds out I help people on a few lists! Makes me look real bad, doesn't it? No. I am on a few lists and each list with a different email address so that I can sort them out correctly. If you people don’t wish to help out, its fine, just ignore my mails. It will be nice to stop making fun of me. Thanks And one more thing to think about... Saying stop picking on me usually gets the opposite effect. ;-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
[CentOS] Re: tar spanning
on 5-15-2008 10:06 AM MHR spake the following: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 6:56 AM, John R Pierce pierce-BRp9yk6zKL1Wk0Htik3J/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: outlook supports imap, doesn't it? I have my wife setup with Microsoft Windows Mail (Vista, fka outlook express) using imap on gmail, and it works /great/ she gets the best of both worlds, it maintains copies of her folders locally AND on the gmail server, and synchronizes each time she connects so that she can look up stuff in her email when she's offline. the imap 'folders' she creates in windows mail are in fact filters on gmail. OMG! Did I read this right? John, YOUR wife uses (random unflattering gagging noises inserted here) WINDOW$??? I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you! I may not get anything else done today! /humor ! What, I left out the start tag? It's implicit here, isn't it??? ;^ mhr Is it still funny if you have unmatched tags? -- 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
[CentOS] Re: tar spanning
on 5-15-2008 1:31 PM Simon Jolle sjolle spake the following: On 05/15/2008 05:27 AM, Nick Fenwick wrote: For what it's worth, I usually use rar for this task, because I can figure out the command line in about 10 seconds by running 'rar' with no arguments and check the help output, and they confuse my Windows-y friends less if I need to pass them around. Install rar from rpmforge. I admit RAR is a file archiver that archives with very high compression ratios and is very popular in windows world. But is proprietary software (not Open Source). I recommend you using 7zip[0] currently leader in high compression on unix-like systems. To split a directory of files into roughly 700Mb bits: rar a -v70k rarname_to_create.rar dir_of_files 7za a -v700m rarname_to_create.rar dir_of_files Pre-packaged RPM is available at RPMforge[1] You just can't beat one thing about tar and gzip on unix like systems -- they all come with it from the factory. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Best Motherboard
on 5-15-2008 5:35 AM Ryan Nichols spake the following: Really? We bought that EXACT motherboard.. 10 to be exact and we've had 9 fail and the 10th is on its way to major failure.. the odd thing is that 10th one was the first one purchased and that was 6 months ago. I haven't had failures like that since the late 90's capacitor plague! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Best Motherboard
on 5-15-2008 4:17 PM Scott Silva spake the following: on 5-15-2008 5:35 AM Ryan Nichols spake the following: Really? We bought that EXACT motherboard.. 10 to be exact and we've had 9 fail and the 10th is on its way to major failure.. the odd thing is that 10th one was the first one purchased and that was 6 months ago. I haven't had failures like that since the late 90's capacitor plague! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague Thinking more about the 10 failures, I wonder if they were grey market boards that got re-sold instead of sent back for remanufacture. Some dealers can be less than reputable when margins get tight, and some are just plain bastards. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Replacing Qpopper with Dovecot
on 5-15-2008 12:59 PM Gerald Braun spake the following: I currently have a Centos server with Sendmail and Qpopper supporting about 50 mail users. I am planning to replace Qpopper with Dovecot to allow some users to have IMAP access to their mail (others will still use POP3.) Is there anything special to be aware of in setting up this migration? Thanks for your comments. Gerald I would recommend the dovecot list and the wiki (http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration). It doesn't specifically mention qpopper, but the list might be able to help you further. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: OT: Top Posting
on 5-16-2008 8:14 AM Carol Anne Ogdin spake the following: Dear Mr. Singh: I understand you prefer this medium. I have practical experience with alternatives that have offered measurable and definite benefits to the communities they serve. Your opinions are louder than your putative experience. Unfortunately, in 51 years in the computer industry, I've sometimes had to cope with behaviors like yours. It still makes me sad to experience such unhappy people who think that attack is the best way to enrich a collaboration. So 51 years ago you had to be working on either Univac or a CDC 1604. There wasn't much else around in 1957. Digital had just opened and hadn't produced a system yet, so Sperry Rand and the new kids CDC were about it. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: OT: Top Posting
on 5-16-2008 8:08 AM Carol Anne Ogdin spake the following: Les Mikesell questioned, ...who would go there to post any answers? The answer is the same people who share here...and probably many more who find this sparse medium harder to navigate. There's a thriving community I helped create and nurture, which I've described at http://www.deepwoods.com/transform/pubs/Community.htm When there's value provided, many people will rise to the challenge of adding even more value. And, yes, I know there's an archive of posts to this forum, but the question is one of focus: Do you hold more value for a lively (virtual) meeting with lots of participants, or a quiet library where information is archived? This medium feels to me more like the latter. This list is more like a game of checkers over the cracker barrel. Some work gets done, some bickering gets done. Some friends are made, some feelings get hurt. All in all, not the best list I have been on, but very far away from the worst. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: tar spanning
on 5-16-2008 4:28 AM Anne Wilson spake the following: On Thursday 15 May 2008 11:22:51 pm Scott Silva wrote: on 5-14-2008 6:11 PM Jim Perrin spake the following: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Fajar Priyanto fajarpri-Hlp6NBfSoRe8rHFcjEY/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Googling my own name 'Fajar Priyanto Linux' returns 12,300 hits from Google. Maybe someday we can compile a top-ten list for this? :) Oh hell no. If we go down that road we're doing it RIGHT, with a winner-take-all brawl via google-fight(http://www.googlefight.com/)! Two names enter, one name leaves! Ha! I beat you! http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GBword1=Scott+Silvaword2=Jim +Perrin http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GBword1=Anne+Wilsonword2=Jim+Perrin :-) Anne Thats because your name has Heart! ;-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
[CentOS] Re: clustered mail server?
on 5-18-2008 3:17 PM Tom Diehl spake the following: On Sun, 18 May 2008, Guy Boisvert wrote: Ruslan Sivak wrote: David G. Mackay wrote: I'm not sure why nobody has asked this yet, but why not try hosted GMail instead? It's free and you can use it with your domain name. We currently run a linux based mail server, but are thinking of migrating over to hosted GMail, and have one so for a few clients already with no problems. Russ Well, i just hope you don't have anything secret or sensitive... With their search power, it's very easy to automate the info harvesting! If you are sending secret or sensitive information via unencrypted email you already have a bigger problem then weather or not google is harvesting info. Email by design is insecure. Why anyone would believe otherwise is unclear to me. If you are encrypting it than I would argue that it does not matter if google tries to harvest information from it. I think I would be more afraid of them selling my contact list to spammers along with every one else's. If the profits get low enough, almost any corporation could stoop this low to make the stockholders happy. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: RAID5 or RAID50 for database?
on 5-22-2008 9:12 AM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: Warren Young wrote: John R Pierce wrote: raid50 requires 2 or more raid 5 volumes. with 4 disks, thats just not an option. for file storage (including backup files from a database), raid5 is probably fine... for primary database tablespace storage, I'd only use raid1 or raid10. RAID-10 has only one perfect application, and that's with exactly four disks. It can't use fewer, and the next larger step is 8, where other flavors of RAID usually make more sense. But, for the 4-disk configuration, it's unbeatable unless you need capacity more than speed and redundancy. (In that case, you go with RAID-5.) RAID-10 gives the same redundancy as RAID-50: guaranteed tolerance of a single disk lost, and will tolerate a second disk lost at the same time if it's in the other half of the RAID. RAID-10 may also give better performance than RAID-50. I'm not sure because you're trading off more spindles against more parity calculation with the RAID-50. At any rate, RAID-10 shouldn't be *slower*. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos It seems like you know / like RAID-10 a lot :) So, how does it perform with 6 discs for example? Say I have 3 HDD's in RAID-0, and another 3 in RAID-0, then RAID-1 the 2 RAID-0 stripes. How well would that work? And what would you recommend on 8 / 10 HDD's? What you are describing would be raid 0+1 not raid 10. Most docs I have read state that raid 10 is more fault tolerant. Here is one that explains it better; http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/levels/multXY-c.html -- 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
[CentOS] Re: RAID5 or RAID50 for database?
on 5-22-2008 9:58 PM Bahadir Kiziltan spake the following: You need at least 6 drives for RAID5. I don't know if Perc 4e/Di allows configuring the RAID5. Where did you get this bit of information? You can create a raid 5 with 3 or more disks. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: sed
on 5-23-2008 11:51 AM Les Mikesell spake the following: Stephen Harris wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 06:59:24PM +0200, Thomas Johansson wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: sed 's/^\([^]*[ ]*[^]*\)\([ ]*.*\)$/\1.contoso.com\2/' (where there's a space *and* a TAB inside each of the [ ] ) The above version easier to read and copy paste. Space is space and tabe is \t sed 's/^\([^ \t]*[ \t]*[^ \t]*\)\([ \t]*.*\)$/\1.contoso.com\2/' I grew up with versions of 'sed' that don't understand this new-fangled method of specifying tabs, and write enough cross-platform code that I can't rely on it (still doesn't work in Solaris 10, for example). perl can do anything sed can do and has almost no platform or version related syntax differences - plus it has \s to represent 'whitespace' and you don't have to bang your head on the wall when you are half done and realize you have to do something spanning multiple lines. Show your example. Inquiring minds want to know! -- 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
[CentOS] Re: memorial day kernel panic
on 5-27-2008 11:24 AM sbeam spake the following: On Tuesday 27 May 2008 13:16, Miguel Medalha wrote: Some Tyan boards are known as being very picky with RAM. If you want to avoid problems, you should really stick to the types listed in Tyan's memory compatibility list. hmm. well the spec sheet just says unbuffered DDR 266/200 and that is what we got. I never noticed there was a list of recommended memory, but your comment made me look and I found one. PQI is not on the list :( But... we had a similar system with the same mobo and ram stick - only one 512M, not 2x1G like these - that was running for years with nary a hiccup until the disks died. The one we are having problems with was its upgrade/replacement. Maybe this is a problem though. thanks Sam Just because memory has a lifetime warranty doesn't mean that it is guaranteed to not be bad on arrival, or to not fail quickly. It just means they will send you new ones if they break. It does happen, and more often then you might think. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: FireFox
on 5-27-2008 4:22 PM Robert Spangler spake the following:
Can anyone tell me if there are plans to update Firefox to the new 3.0 for
Centos 4.5? Seems like only the 1.5 version has been placed in the repos and
I think it should be time for an upgrade.
If I'm looking in the wrong place let me know also. Thnx.
I wouldn't count on it. CentOS 4 (now at 4.6) is in maintenance only mode, and
unless someone adds it to plus, I doubt it will make it in.
From the CentOS wiki;
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How long will CentOS-4 updates be supported?
We intend to support CentOS-4 updates until Feb 29, 2012.
The current plan is this:
Full Updates (including hardware updates): Currently to Feb 29, 2008
Maintenance Updates: Mar 1, 2008 to Feb 29, 2012
Full Updates - During the Full Updates phase, new hardware support will be
provided at the discretion of CentOS via Update Sets. Additionally, all
available and qualified errata will be provided via Update Sets (or
individually {and immediately} for Security level errata.) Update Sets
normally will be released 2-4 times per year, with new ISOs released as part
of each Update Set. In the 4.x numbering scheme, the .x is the number of the
Update Set.
Maintenance Updates - During the Maintenance updates phase, only Security
errata and select mission critical bug fixes will be released. There will be
few, if any, Update Sets released.
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[CentOS] Re: smp falls back to up mode on quad core
on 5-28-2008 8:09 AM Julian Echave spake the following: Solved it! After quite a lot of messing around... It turns out i was booting with the acpi=off option, but for the BIOS to see the 4 processors acpi has to be on. The problem was that with acpi=on, boot hangs, unless pci=nommconf is added to the boot options. To summarize, I now boot using the options acpi = on pci=nommconf Thanks. Julian. Doesn't acpi default to on? So you should be able to just have pci=nommconf. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: FireFox
on 5-29-2008 4:55 AM Daniel de Kok spake the following: On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Stephen John Smoogen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It will depend upon if Red Hat will release a version for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The best bet will be that they will not release it until RHEL-4.7 goes into beta testing. It looks like there is a good chance it will be included in 4.7: https://www.redhat.com/archives/nahant-list/2008-May/msg00052.html (- Added Firefox3) Take care, Daniel RedHat must be trying to cut some of the costs of backporting. They seem somewhat more willing to update versions then they used to be. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: centos on ebox
on 5-29-2008 11:52 AM Jerry Geis spake the following: Jerry Geis wrote: / // now do: // // i586 text mem=128 // // // when I do i586 text mem=128 it says cant find kernel // so I do linux i586 text mem=128 and I get the same behavior // Loading vmlinuz // Loading initrd // and reboot. // // Am I not correctly specifying the kernel yet? // / Are you sure this is a CD-1 and not a ServerCD ??? i586 text THAT should work Sure enough I had the centos 4 server CD, I looked deaper and got the CD disk 1 out of my pack and i586 text does a BUNCH more... thanks. Now I see on the screen that hda is discovered on the IDE interface as a 1 GIG device. The last 2 lines printed are: Cannot open root device NULL or unknown block (8,3) kernel panic not syncing unable to mount root. What do I do with that? Everything above that looks normal as detect PS/2 etc... Jerry It must be either the hardware or a bad disc as I just did a quick install in vmware with 128 Mgs of ram and it went OK. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: 40 second delay on automounts with 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 kernel
on 5-29-2008 12:42 PM Ned Slider spake the following: Joe Pruett wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2008, Johnny Hughes wrote: This is already solved on another thread ... but for closure on this one, there is a known bug here with that kernel and ipsec: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2853 that bug entry does say to use the upstream bug for info about a workaround, but the upstream bug is blocked to mere mortals. is there a workaround other than just using the older kernel? Did you see the added note? I quote: For the benefit of those who do not have access to the upstream bugzilla report, this bug has been fixed in the updated 5.2 kernel (version number 2.6.18-92.el5), and this kernel also contains the CVE-2007-6282 patch. I would recommend that people affected by this bug upgrade to 2.6.18-92.el5. Is that the kernel to be released with 5.2? -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Learning some sad things about the state of IPv6
on 5-30-2008 6:38 AM Robert Moskowitz spake the following: Matt Shields wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: The OP is not saying there is no ipv6 netfilter support. He said that there is no ipv6 state netfilter module or something like that. In which case either you dont know what the OP is talking about, or he doesnt know what he asked :D Exactly!!! What he's complaining about is the lack of lazy-man's GUI tool to configure ip6tables. Not so much as complaining, but looking at easy-of-use and time allocation. I have done iptables by hand and have used a few tools. One thing I like about the tools I have found helpful is they have been good 'quick starts' for learning what to do by hand! But my source is: http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ecai6-2007/slides/2007-ECAI6-Status-IPv6-Firewalling-PeterBieringer-Talk.pdf Peter, who has been involved with IPv6 for a long time, covers NetFilter on slide 8 and claims stateful support added in 2.6.20. Elsewhere I found a reference that RHel would get this end-of-year 2008, and Fedora Core 6 has it now. I looked in my /boot and saw that Centos is using 2.6.18, and I concluded from all this that I would have to work with FC6 for the next half year. Seems this conclusion is mis-informed if this NetFilter feature got backported already Are you absolutely sure that FWBuilder doesn't support IPv6? Because here there a release note http://www.fwbuilder.org/docs/firewall_builder_release_notes.html referring to ip6tables. I also saw that FWBuilder supports IPv6. But if the kernel only supports stateless, then that is all you can do with FWBuider, I would think. My one review of FWBuilder was that it was more than I needed at the time and Shorewall would handle my needs for my one VoIP firewall. Well I learned a lot using Shorewall. And Shorewall does NOT have IPv6 support, I asked on their list. So now I go and build a box and see if I got enough to get the job done. There is one thing to remember about Enterprise RedHat; you can't just assume what is in it by package version numbers alone. You have to read changelogs, and sometimes the patches themselves. Or just try it and see if it works or not. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Setting Group owner of files on USB drive
on 5-30-2008 1:39 PM Matt Hyclak spake the following: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 04:37:58PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz enlightened us: I just got a 8Gb flash drive and went to copy a bunch of files onto it. I wanted to perserve everything, so I just took my archiving rsync command and altered it to go to localhost:/media/RALLY2/ (name of flash drive). I am getting errors with changing the group owner. Huh? So I try to just use mkdir to create a directory on the flash drive. The directory has a group of root ??? So I try a chgrp and get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] me]# chgrp me /media/RALLY2/Stuff chgrp: changing group of `/media/RALLY2/Stuff': Operation not permitted OK why can't I set the group to something other than root? ls -lstr /media/ total 4 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 me root 4096 May 30 16:28 RALLY2 and of course for /media: 8 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 30 16:18 media Most likely the device is formatted as FAT32, which has no concept of permissions. Reformat it, ignore the errors, or modify your rsync command to not preserve uid/gid. Matt Or if you want to preserve permissions, you will need to use tar or some other archiver. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Updates in same major version number ?
on 5-30-2008 2:54 PM Emmanuel Fournier spake the following: May be already asked, sorry so ! But what is the best method when updating between 4.4 and 4.5 or 4.4 and 4.6 or 5.0 and 5.1 Is it ok to update only with 'yum update' cmd, with no risk ? Thanks you for your support, __ Emmanuel Fournier - ICT That is exactly how you update in point versions. Occasionally there might be issues, but they are the exception. I remember a broken package back about the 4.2 to 4.3 upgrade. but it was resolved quickly. Usually if there is a yum or rpm upgrade involved, it might be better to install those packages first, but it might not happen again. There is no special magic involved in a point release. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: I need hardware advice here
on 6-3-2008 2:22 AM Peter Arremann spake the following: On Tuesday 03 June 2008 02:07:12 am Christopher Chan wrote: Victor Padro wrote: Hello all, I just been wasting time with an Asus mobo trying to get CentOS/RHEL up and running for my home lab using Xen Technologies and need an advice in order to have a fully working Box, got any suggestions? Use acpi=off or noapic to deal with broken Asus bioses. Next time, buy MSI or A-bit. Doesn't MSI require you to have windows for bios updates? Peter. Most boards I have had usually had a floppy image available on the website for bioses. Only live update is the windows only software. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: CentOS-Samba question
on 6-3-2008 1:00 PM MHR spake the following: On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:16 AM, John R Pierce pierce-BRp9yk6zKL1Wk0Htik3J/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: win9X has horrible network username habits...you need to determine what username its running as... dirty trick, log off, and the username should be in the login prompt, just hit enter to relogin with the same username and the same blank local password.. on the SAMBA server, create that username as a linux user, AND `smbuser -a username`, assign it a smb password. when win98 prompts for a password, thats the username it will use, you get no choice, and win98 should be able to 'save' that password (if you check said box on the login prompt), which causes it to be saved to a username.pwd file (I think thats the name of the password cache). More progress: It occurred to me that somewhere along the line I had not given my CentOS guest user smb access, so I ran smbpasswd and set the guest password to match its login password. When I went back to W98, I tried to add the network printer - it recognized the name (\\mhrichter\MPP1100) and asked for a password. I gave it the guest password, and it proceeded to try to install it. I put in the CD, went through all the (right) moves to install the driver, and then the moment of truth: W98 said I had to reboot. I knew I was in trouble. I rebooted, and, lo and behold, the printer was suddenly offline and unavailable (there was no change to the CentOS host or the printer at all). I deleted the printer to start over, but this time W98 said the printer was offline when I input the name and the password. W98 still can't see the network or any of the shares in the Network Neighborhood, but at least I can reach for it by name. Any doors or windows in this wall? Thanks. mhr PS: I have always said that I don't really hate Window$, I just prefer working in and on Unix/Linux. I don't think that's true any more, although I must say that of all the versions of Window$ I've ever used, XP is the least objectionable. Vista will raise your disappointment level back up! -- 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
[CentOS] Re: I need hardware advice here
on 6-4-2008 8:06 AM Victor Padro spake the following: Or you can sometimes boot with the m/board driver disk to flash the bios, putting the new bios file on a floppy or USB pendrive.. john Already did that, flashed it to the last version, and flashed it backwards, no possitive results neither way, nevertheless I was able to install RHEL 5.2 i386, x86_64 without any issue. The AHCI or even SATA worked ok. Well CentOS 5.2 should be out in a couple of weeks. I'm sure the build servers are humming away right now. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Live CD?
on 6-3-2008 11:51 AM MHR spake the following: I just used a Live CD for the first time today, in part to show what CentOS can do for a co-worker who is looking at using it at work and home, but I got the strangest result. We booted the CD and let the centos user log in. It took a really long time to load the desktop and there were no panels, so the only things we could do were browse the computer, CD, home, file system, keyboard (sort of) and pretty much nothing else. altf2 and altf1 did nothing, either - no menu, no input windows - nada. Is that normal? If not, what did I/we overlook? I was expecting a lot more, and from looking around the wiki, there should have been, but I couldn't find a good reference for what the Live CD is supposed to be able to do or let a user do. Thanks. mhr Corrupted CD maybe? -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Blocking external usb storage
on 6-4-2008 9:19 AM John R Pierce spake the following: whoami i wrote: HI, This is my first mail to this mailing list.I want to block external usb storage completly on my server running on centos 5 having confidiential data. shouldn't this server be in a secure area where no one unauthorized can access its USB ports in the first place? Sure... The EASY answer! ;-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
[CentOS] Re: sendmail and spam
on 6-4-2008 1:53 PM Alain Terriault spake the following: Hi, What is todays most effective combination to filter spam ? On my old Redhat 3 system I used Sendmail and Spamassasin .. it was good, but with the current setup we are getting way to much spam. Looking around I found new players, well some I did not know then and they are very interesting.. MailScanner .. http://www.mailscanner.info/ Sagator .. http://www.salstar.sk/sagator/ Smf .. http://smfs.sourceforge.net/index.html dspam .. http://dspam.nuclearelephant.com/index.shtml I am tempted to go with smfs because it is familiar .. but, mailscanner seems popular thanks, alain I really like MailScanner. You can add it to your current system with very little effort, and add virus scanning very easily. You will still need to spend time training and maybe write an occasional spamassassin rule, but that is just the nature of the game anymore. Spam changes constantly, and you have to change with it. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: 5.1 Anaconda Install Error SOLVED
on 6-4-2008 3:12 PM Kirk Bocek spake the following: Karanbir Singh wrote: Kirk Bocek wrote: I didn't provide the details because it was strange that the installation failed at the same point regardless of the booting method I used. It felt like some basic mistake or mis-setting in the OS. But hey, I've been wrong before. Anything interesting on vc#1,3,4,5 ? how about run remote syslog and see if anything interesting gets in there After wandering in the dark for two days, I found this posting: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=13334 This reminded me that although this is an all SATA system, I also have a PATA tape drive installed. The solution in the posting was to temporarily unplug the tape drive. Rather than pull this host out of the rack for the umpteenth time, I simply added to the installer's command line: hda=none hdb=none For some reason, the tape drive is installed as /dev/hdb. I'm not sure what's at /dev/hda. If it's the DVD drive and I was installing from physical media, that might be a problem. However, my PXE-boot install is now flying along. Kirk Bocek With PATA the device ID is based on location. Hdb is the primary slave (slave on first port). There doesn't have to be a hda. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: rpm -q versus what's installed
on 6-5-2008 11:17 AM MHR spake the following:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:56 AM, William L. Maltby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 23:27 -0400, Scott R. Ehrlich wrote:
I am trying to install Oracle client 10g (10.2.0) on a 64-bit CentOS 5.0
system.
'rpm -q make gcc glibc etc' reveals some packages as not installed, yet
a yum install package name consistently returns Nothing to do. Yum list
available package name yields nothing needed.
If rpm -q list of packages lists some that are not installed but every
variant of yum install and yum list I've tried and googled claiims nothing
more needs to be installed, either the OS is misreporting (I doubt that)
or I'm missing something that is not easily being revealed, or that I
haven't used in a long time and outright forgetting.
A common error is to not give the correct name to rpm. Try
rpm -qa | grep part of the pkg name
I often forget to add such trivial stuff as .i386 to the package name.
Ditto for yum. Just do a yum list all into some file and then view the
file.
Also, yum list all into a file might be useful. It shows installed and
available.
I have a couple of aliases you might find useful for this:
alias rg='rpm -qa | grep -i'
alias yg='yum list | grep -i'
They're not terribly efficient, but I don't use them that often,
either. Also, I have a setting in my .rpmmacros (or .rpmrc) file at
home that specifies to list the machine type along with the file name
- I can't remember it (or find it) right now, but I got it here, so
someone knows
(Figures that I wouldn't have it here)
HTH
mhr
%_query_all_fmt %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch}
in your .rpmmacros file
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[CentOS] Re: kernels and irc
on 6-5-2008 8:30 AM James Bunnell spake the following: On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 09:57 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: James Bunnell wrote: I was in the #centos-social channel and simply stated that I noticed CentOS 3-4 were getting a lot of updates. I also stated that the CentOS 5 was one kernel behind, as in RHEL it is at -53, the gentlemen then told me that I was wrong and it was at -21. I then asked if there was a way to get a progress report somehow on 5.2, and that 5.2 has already upgraded that kernel. The result was that I was banned for being correct. I dont understand this kind of support. You are NOT correct ... The latest NON 5.2 kernel is: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Client/en/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5.src.rpm looks like -53 to me The latest 5.2 kernel is: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Client/en/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.src.rpm this is a new kernel as of today, may 22 compilation date As far as being banned on an IRC Channel ... I am sure you were warned first. CentOS is manned by volunteers. If you want to argue with the people who are on IRC after they tell you not to, then you will be banned. yes i was warned, however, can they not admit when they are wrong? and because its volunteers (like debian), all the more reason to be professional. The CentOS project trusts the judgment of our forum moderators and our IRC ops ... if they ban you then you are banned. We are not a for profit company where you pay us for service and can be disrespectful to our employees. You will instead have to be polite in your disagreements. i have been polite for weeks. i finally had a enough of being polite and just being told, 'it will be release when its ready.' that is not a professional answer. is it too much to ask for an update? If this is a problem, I suggest that you find a paid for service contract where you can be rude to the people with whom you interact. i do pay for rhel. i made the mistake of converting to centos. damage is done. on the next major upgrade, i will return to rhel and will not professionally recommend centos either privately,personally, or in the realm of a business. thanks for seeing my side of the issue and not jumping on the elite bandwagon. i am done. No wonder you were banned on #irc. I personally am more than happy to wait. I came here from Whitebox linux, and it is even slower there. One person is doing what the entire team is doing here. I also know that if I am in that big of a hurry, I can down the src rpms and start building... But I won't. Johnny, Karanbir, Russ, Seth, Dag, Jim, Donavan, and every one else on the team that I most surely missed... You do a bang up job, and our thanks go to your tireless and mostly unpaid contributions to this project! If I have to wait a week or a month for a new release... so be it. The security updates are what is most important, and those come very quickly. Again ... Thank you all! -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Dell 1950 Perc 6/i with centos 4.5
on 6-6-2008 8:43 AM Tim Verhoeven spake the following: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Stephen Moccio smoccio-HTy/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are currently running CentOS 4.5 on older Dell Systems. We are upgrading to Dell PowerEdge 1950 with a PERC 6/i raid controller. CentOS 4.5 installation does not see the PERC 6/i controller. Dell and LSI Logic only support RHEL 4U6 and higher and SuSe. Well, if RHEL 4U6 is supported, then just use CentOS 4.6 instead of 4.5 and the install will work. Regards, Tim Dope! _ ,___,-',-=-. __,-- _ _,-'_)_ (`'-._\ `. _,' __ |,' ,-' __) ,- /. | ,'_,--' | -' _)/ `\ ,',' ,' ,-'_,` : ,' ,-' ,(,-( : ,' ,-' ,_; /,-._/`---'/ /()(. ) ,' / ( `.__, /\ /, : ;-.___ /__\/| | ,' `--. -,\ | :/\.__/ \ (__\|_ \ ,`-, * / _|,\ \,' `-. ,'_,-'\ (_\,-','\)--,'-' __\ \ / // ,'| ,--' `-. `-.`-/ \' | _,' `. `-._ / `--'/ \ -hrr- ,' | \ / | \ ,-' | / / | -' -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Dell 1950 Perc 6/i with centos 4.5
on 6-6-2008 10:31 AM Steve Moccio spake the following: Yes, Thanks. What I forgot to mention was that I need to run CentOS 4.5 and not CentOS 4.6 if at all possible. As soon as it yum updates, it will be 4.6 anyway. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: 3Ware 9690SA
on 6-6-2008 10:48 AM Ruslan Sivak spake the following: Victor Padro wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Ruslan Sivak [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Ruslan Sivak [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Verhoeven wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Ruslan Sivak [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I successfully installed CentOS on 3ware 9650SE controller. Due to some issues with compatibility with my motherboard, I replaced it with a 9690SA. Now the system won't boot (although interestingly enough, it find the boot menu fine, just won't boot past a certain point in the bootup phase. I thought I would reinstall, but anaconda doesn't find the raid array. 3ware does have drivers on their site, but I'm not too sure how to get them on my system? That controller requires a newer version of the 3ware driver. I'm pretty sure the 5.2 will have that driver. So if you can wait a bit longer... Regards, Tim For production use, I can, but currently we are testing these servers, and I would like to get them up and running. Is there a way to load a driver on an already running system, or load it for anaconda? Something similar to F6 in windows? Yes, anaconda supports the concept of a driver disk. http://www.centos.org/docs/2/rhl-ig-as-x86-en-2.1/ch-driverdisk.html And 3ware offers a disk image download for 9690SA/RHEL5. Thank you. I noticed that they said in the docs to install by using linux dd. 3ware provides a zip file with the drivers, not a disk image, AFAIK. I burned the contents of the zip to a cd, but anaconda fails to recognize it. It keeps complaining about not being able to find a fat or a ext3 filesystem on the driver disk. I don't have a floppy drive, only a cdrom and a flash drive. Do I need to get a floppy drive in order for this to work? Russ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org mailto:CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Perhaps you can download RHEL 5.2 from Red Hat Network, if you are a customer there will be no problem but if you're not, maybe you can sign out for 30 day trial and then download the ISOs, burn it and test your box and share your results, it will be enough time for CentOS 5.2 to be available, so then you can be sure to run a production system. https://www.redhat.com/wapps/sso/rhn/login.html?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Frhn.redhat.com%2Frhn%2Fsoftware%2Fchannel%2Fdownloads%2FDownload.do%3Fcid=6949 I got almost the same issue with an Asus mainboard...that's my 2 cents. Cya. Victor. It's probably a good idea for me to know how to do this from scratch. Plus I want to see if there's a difference in performance between the stock driver and the 3ware driver. I'm going to try giving 3ware a call to see how to install this. Their support is usually excellent. Russ I don't think their driver is better, as they regularly refresh their driver to the kernel maintainers. It is just that the newer cards take a bit of time to get to the disk images. Another thing you might be able to do is install to a drive that is not on the raid card and install their driver and migrate to the array. I just looked at their website, and they do have a driver disk image. If you don't have a floppy, you can usually do a network install and get the driver disk image also from the network. It is in the install docs I believe. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: 3Ware 9690SA
The ones on their standard download page are not compatible with Xen kernels according to the release notes. The ones to be used for Xen kernels on x64 is this one: http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15257 That only has a zip file, not an image file. Russ Then you might just have to wait, or do a base install to a separate drive, install the driver, and migrate the whole thing to the raid. Or just run the base OS off of the separate drive for the initial tests and keep the Domu images on the raid array. Either way, 5.2 will probably (maybe?) be out by the 3rd week of June. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: 3Ware 9690SA
The ones on their standard download page are not compatible with Xen kernels according to the release notes. The ones to be used for Xen kernels on x64 is this one: http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15257 That only has a zip file, not an image file. Russ http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15257 is the files that go on a driver disk. I just dl'd it and opened it. I know there is a way to use a driver disk from other media, but I can't find it, and I'm sure someone on list will remember how. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: usb thumbdrive
on 6-6-2008 12:33 PM Jerry Geis spake the following: Hi all, I am soo close. I have have made my custom kernel from a DIFFERENT machine, I have hte USB booting, I have 3 partitions, 1-fat12, 2 - ext3, 3 is swap. on booting it says: VFS cannot open root device NULL please append root= I tried root=/dev/sda2 and still nothing. Is there something about building a kernel on one machine and then taking that to another machine with different disk structure and it not booting??? What do you do in that case? I think - hope - this is my last step to get past... jerry You have to make sure that your initrd made on the other machine has drivers for the usb storage loaded. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: 3Ware 9690SA
on 6-6-2008 3:32 PM Vidar Normann spake the following: On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Ruslan Sivak [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Silva wrote: The ones on their standard download page are not compatible with Xen kernels according to the release notes. The ones to be used for Xen kernels on x64 is this one: http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15257 That only has a zip file, not an image file. Russ http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15257 is the files that go on a driver disk. I just dl'd it and opened it. I know there is a way to use a driver disk from other media, but I can't find it, and I'm sure someone on list will remember how. Yes these are the files I was using. It wouldn't let me install with these files on a usb drive or a cdrom, but it worked fine when I put them on a floppy. I then did an upgrade install of CentOS, and was able to boot into the system. The only issue now seems to be that I still can't boot the xen kernel with it. I tried manually copying the 3w-9xxx.ko from /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.el5/updates to /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.21.el5xen/updates, but that didn't seem to help. Do I need to mkinitrd or something? Maybe not 100% useful, but I had trouble installing CentOS on a machine with a 9690SA as recently as tonight - who has floppy drives anymore? (Well, I did, but all my floppies were unusable, big shock..) The trick was to use the method explained on this site to turn the files in the driver download from 3ware into an image: http://www.openfusion.net/linux/network-driver-images Upload it to somewhere accessible via the Internet or your local network. Then all I had to do was boot with the parameter: linux dd=http://somewhere.com/filename Good to know that dd supports http and ftp out of the box and not just local media. I knew someone would remember how to use a driverdisk image over a network! -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Hardening CentOS by removing hacker tools
on 6-6-2008 4:28 PM Ruslan Sivak spake the following: Dennis McLeod wrote: They basically detect port scans and add a firewall rule to temporarily block that ip. Does anyone know what tool that is? Also disabling remote login as root should help. Russ Fail2ban, is what you are looking for, I think http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Dennis Sweet, actually this looks more like what I wanted, but rackspace said wasn't available. This bans the ips if there are a lot of password failures. There is also another tool which bans ips for port scans. I think it's been discontinued, but perhaps there is another one out there? Russ I think that was portsentry. http://sourceforge.net/projects/sentrytools/ -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Olivier Castien/Roncq/Infofrance/FRA/TZG est absent.
on 6-7-2008 4:16 PM MHR spake the following: En anglais, s'il vous plait - cette liste est pour ceux de nous qui parlent anglais. (Pardonnez mon pauvre francais) But now I can learn to despise out of office messages in a wide array of languages! ;-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
[CentOS] Re: new install of 5.1 with KVM-over-IP - can't install with GUI - need assistance
on 6-7-2008 8:06 AM Alon spake the following: Hi All, I have several dozens of CentOS and WhiteBox servers. Most of them are CentOS 4.6. Our installation service is done in the datacenter where the servers are located. When we install a fresh clean install, we use the GUI menus, while using the KVMoverIP. That was working great with CentOS 4.x In CentOS 5.x, the installation process 'annonces that Hey,. I know you are using a KVM and don't have a monitor attached (who cares??). But, since you are using a KVM and no monitor is attached,. you CANNOT use the GUI installation. Why??? 4.x didn't care for this. Why make my life difficult? I have to 'cheat' by calling the datacenter to plug a monitor for the first minute of the install and then plug back the KVM cable. Isn't this stupid? of course it is! I am looking for a solution such as a parameter that I can pass to the boot sequence (vga=nommconf or something like that) so that it won't do the probing for the VGA and just let me go about my business. Mind you that this is a problem both with DELL PowerEdge 1950iii with DRAC5 remote consule as well as with just plain PCs that use ATEN KVM 9116. Once the probe understand that we don't use a monitor it prompts the 'can't use the GUI'. Any pointers about this? Thanks, -Sup. I believe there is a headless parameter you can use. I have used it for VNC installs. It might work for you. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Software raid tutorial and hardware raid questions.
on 6-7-2008 9:35 AM drew einhorn spake the following: I remember seeing one with an example migrating from an old fashioned filesystem on a partition to a new filesystem on a mirrored lvm logical volume but one only one side of the mirror is set up at this time. First I need to copy stuff from what will become the second side of the mirror to filesystem on the first side or the mirror Then I will be ready to follow the rest of the tutorial and build and attach the second side of the mirror. Wish I could remember where I saw that tutorial. Want to embellish the example and stripe each side of the mirror. Understanding a mirrored pair of stripes, seems easier than understanding a striped pair of mirrors. But this seems like a place where counterintuitive results are not a big surprise. I can do mirroring and striping in lvm, mdadm, or a hardware raid controller. There are lots of configurations to ponder. What about recovery after a hardware raid controller? What are the chances of being able to replace the controller and start up successfully from drives? I know that assuming the failed controller did write bad stuff to the drives while it was crashing and burning. I would not be surprised if the controller firmware revisions had to match. I would be surprised but not astonished if the board hardware revision level had to match, too. I hope we are past those days. Anybody know about the LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller in particular. I know that with 3ware controllers, they are always backward compatible, and will sell you a controller that will work. As to the bad activity, nothing will mitigate backups. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Compact Flash..
on 6-9-2008 3:40 AM Peter Farrell spake the following: I generally will do one of two things in addition to my normal backups. 1. run a cron that exports the database, then gzip it - I rsync that off to another machine. 2. I replicate the database to other machines in the same tier. I agree about the CF failure as well. No biggie. I would copy it's partition somewhere else once a week for a potential restore of just such a failure. -Peter I could see the CF as a faster boot, but it might just be easier to software raid 2 drives and not worry about the mix. One drive fails, you swap and resync, 2 drives fail, well you did say something about backups! ;-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
[CentOS] Re: Olivier Castien/Roncq/Infofrance/FRA/TZG est absent.
on 6-9-2008 11:15 AM MHR spake the following: 2008/6/9 Scott Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But now I can learn to despise out of office messages in a wide array of languages! ;-P Oh, foo - that's what I get for recognizing the language and not reading it Maybe Olivier will get something out of this all anyway. )-: mhr Probably not since I see the same message all the way back to August 2006. Plenty of time to learn, I suppose. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: sendmail not sending after reboot
on 6-9-2008 1:44 PM Ray Leventhal spake the following: big snip All your Daemon_options (`port... definitions are turned off (dnl). You have effectively told sendmail to not listen to anybody. At a minimum you need DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA') turned on for local mail to move, or DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA') to listen to all interfaces. Hi Scott, Thanks for your reply. I had this in the file posted: dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl but Ill change it to DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA') based on your suggestion. Thanks, -Ray What you posted was the sendmail.mc file. That might not be the options your system was running on if you never actually ran it through the macro processor. As I was looking through the rest of the thread, it looks as if you are not running on the settings in the sendmail.mc file. Do you run webmin on this server, as it will allow you to make changes directly in your sendmail.cf file. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: netboot, vnc and no keyboard/mouse/monitor
on 6-9-2008 12:55 PM dnk spake the following: hey guys, I just created a custom netboot cd, that launches and loads from a http source, but connects to a vnc listening viewer. All in all, not hard to do, but what is different with this one is that it skips the media check, has no prompts and allows you to start the install on a machine that has no keyboard/mouse/monitor. Was handy for me as when i have some boxes to load, I just plug in power and ethernet in the corner (or where ever I have room) and go through the install. I know it also works with a cd as a source (if you use it from cd 1), and assume it would also work with a DVD (have not tested yet). If you would like it, I can add to the wiki if anyone would like it. DNK Please add this, as I never could get the media check skipped on a local CD install without a kickstart file. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: raid1 disk format?
on 6-10-2008 9:59 AM Ross S. W. Walker spake the following: Les Mikesell wrote: If you have a disk with several partitions set up as members of a raid1 md devices, can you make a dd image of that disk to replace its matching drive with identical partitions or are there differences between the mirrored partitions? you can 'dd' the MBR and then re-add the partitions to the raid for resyncing with 'mdadm'. # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1 # mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdb1 # mdadm /dev/md1 --add /dev/sdb2 If you want to really make sure you got everything you could dd the whole first track with: # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=63 -Ross Or sfdisk -d /dev/sdX | sfdisk /dev/sdY where x is source and y is the target. This will work across drives that have slight geometry differences. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Copying files from specific date.
Any help would be really appreciated. One approach would be to use the find command given above to generate a list of files that have changed. Then pass that list to rsync via the '--files-from' option to transfer them to the other server. Oh, you mean this? I know this has never been brought up before, certainly not in the last month or so, but this list has some conventions: 1) Trim your replies 2) Bottom post I thought I heard that somewhere! ;-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
[CentOS] Re: Help!
on 6-10-2008 10:06 AM Craig White spake the following: On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 12:57 -0400, Sam Drinkard wrote: Kai Schaetzl wrote: Sam Drinkard wrote on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:23:05 -0400: Anyhow, it works well if I don't try to update the machine Your problem comes probably from mixing repos. As I said: read back on the list, has been discussed here already several times this spring/summer. Kai Ok.. I sort of figured that was the problem, but I just removed everything clamav related and reinstalled only clamav-milter. When I tried a normal yum update it fails again just as before. As far as I can tell, the files are coming from rpmforge and not dag. I don't have his in the repos. Looking at the index list on Dag's website, it shows the latest clamav as version 0.92 and not 0.93 which is coming from rpmforge. How do I make sure all the stuff comes from rpmforge and not somewhere else? Yes, I remember the discussion from earlier this year, and I got a good install on my other server, but this 64-bit machine is not doing like the 32-bit server. I know it's frustrating to have the same questions asked over and over, but this situation appears to be something besides mixed repositories, or at least from what I see on the screen says it all came from rpmforge. I was under the impression that dag and rpmforge were the same for CentOS purposes...here is the URL for downloading/installing rpmforge.repo https://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge/Using Craig Add ignore-pkgs=clam* to the kbs repo definitions. Do you actually have things installed from kbs-extras? KBS and rpmforge don't play too well together since they have some duplication by package name but not versions. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: [Off Topic, kind of] eMachine model T5254
on 6-10-2008 12:07 PM Bob Taylor spake the following: Hi list, Best Buy currently has an eMachine on sale for less than $300.00 without monitor. I didn't see any recent complaints on www.consumeraffairs.com. I didn't take the time to do a thourgh search so may have missed some. Red Hat hardware list does not have one eMachine listed. I went to eMachine's home page and found the following: AMD Athlon™ BE-2350 dual-core processor NVIDIA® GeForce® 6100 2048MB DDR2 dual-channel 320GB 7200rpm SATA II 16x DVD±R/RW SuperMulti drive High-performance 15-in-1 digital media card reader 6-channel (5.1) high-definition audio They do not list the manufacturer/model of the media card reader and audio. Any hardware guru see any problems? Looking at my bestbuy ad, that machine is going for about $400 here. Probably a good deal at less than $300. If this is the machine, eMachines T5254 Desktop Computer, this page will give you some specs; http://support.gateway.com/emachines/emac/1015304R/1015304Rcl3.shtml -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Excluded files from repos?
on 6-10-2008 12:35 PM Sam Drinkard spake the following: Ralph Angenendt wrote: Sam Drinkard wrote: Ok.. I'm way behind the 8-ball on setting things up correctly, but after going over the protection things in yum, I ran a yum check-update and it returned with having 318 files excluded because of protection. Is that too high a number? I have the numerical protection set to 1. Is there a good tutorial about how to correctly set up the protect base. I'd go with the priorities plugin. Everything about Repositories, Protectbase, Priorities and more at: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/ Cheers, Ralph Just to be on the safe side, I installed both plugins and have them configured now. FWIW, I did a yum check-update and for some unknown reason, I got no dependency issues and nothing was tagged for update! Surely the addition of the protectbase and priorities plugins didn't do that??? It could have, and please don't call me Shirley! ;-P (I know, old joke!) I appreciate all you all have responded, and apologize for the lame questions. Time for me to do some more list reading I suppose. Sam -- 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
[CentOS] Re: yum upgrade 4.3 - current ?
on 6-10-2008 12:29 PM Chris Boyd spake the following: On Jun 4, 2008, at 8:25 PM, Matt Hyclak wrote: If it were me, I would download the latest yum+dependencies and install them via rpm before trying to debug an old yum. Good suggestion. Upgraded yum, sqlite, and python. Also added enough swap space via a swapfile to let yum do what it wants. Now it just eats memory until it hits a 4GB wall and then dies. Version info follows. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -q yum yum-2.4.3-4.el4.centos [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -q sqlite sqlite-3.3.6-2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -q python python-2.3.4-14.4 --Chris There is also a python-sqlite package that might have been updated. rpm -q yum sqlite python python-sqlite yum-2.4.3-4.el4.centos.noarch sqlite-3.3.6-2.x86_64 python-2.3.4-14.4.el4_6.1.x86_64 python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.x86_64 -- 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
[CentOS] Re: yum upgrade 4.3 - current ?
on 6-10-2008 11:10 PM Chris Boyd spake the following: On Jun 10, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Scott Silva wrote: python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.x86_64 ding ding ding! Scott Silva wins a Prize! That was the last key piece. You know... that was in the thread you linked to in your first message... Last paragraph. You could have been done a week ago. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Required for CentOS4.4 ia64 Clustersuite package
on 6-10-2008 11:59 PM Balaji spake the following: Dear All, I am new in Itanium server Installation and I have installed all the CentOS4.4 ia64 CDs and kernel version is 2.6.9-42.EL and I need the Cluster Suite Package for the same. I tried to google-out and i can't find out the Clustersuite package for CentOS4.4 and I findout the CentOS4.5 Clustersuite package from CentOS Website can any one send me path of the Clustersuite package for CentOS4.4 ia64 Please, do the needful. Regards -S.Balaji I do believe that CentOS only builds the cluster suite for i686 and x86_64. You might need to get the src rpms and do some work since I believe that IA64 is a very low priority to CentOS. It is like PPC64 in that usually an OS comes with the hardware purchase, where you can get other processors OS free. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: [Fwd: Re: School Server Setup]
on 6-11-2008 10:45 AM Sorin Srbu spake the following: Everything was orangy, yellow or weird green in the 70s... ;-) I think you took some of the bad acid! ;-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
[CentOS] Re: raid1 disk format?
on 6-11-2008 11:36 PM Les Mikesell spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: I'm curious as to why 2 complete dd'd copies don't pair at boot. One comes up running and it does work to mdadm --add the partner partitions and after the resync they do automatically pair at boot. Are they dd copies of the different nodes (IE.. dd copy of sda paired with dd copy of sdb)? No - what was sda was dd'd twice with the dups put in sda and sdb. That is why it didn't work. The superblock knows which drive it was on, and knows if there are dupes. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: mdmonitor not triggering program on fail events
on 6-12-2008 1:29 AM Ow Mun Heng spake the following: On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 10:11 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: Currently, from what I see, init is calling mdmonitor with these options mdadm --monitor --scan -f (note that the --program is not there) and this is in my /etc/mdadm.conf MAILADDR root PROGRAM /root/program_2_run.sh short of hacking the mdmonitor script to hardcode the program there, is there an alternate, more elegant way? What's not elegant about that? Sure, an /etc/sysconfig/mdmonitor would probably have been better, but it scans the config file for MAIL and PROGRAM being in it and would stop otherwise. Yeah, it scans for either mail OR program being in there but for some obscure reason, (or perhaps I just don't get how it works) the PROGRAM to be ran isn't being called out by the mdmonitor init script and I'm not sure why. The only thing which I can see is that the option --program is not mentioned I don't see an option --program mentioned in the man page either. Is that a valid option? -- 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
[CentOS] Re: raid1 disk format?
on 6-12-2008 10:28 AM Les Mikesell spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: I'm curious as to why 2 complete dd'd copies don't pair at boot. One comes up running and it does work to mdadm --add the partner partitions and after the resync they do automatically pair at boot. Are they dd copies of the different nodes (IE.. dd copy of sda paired with dd copy of sdb)? No - what was sda was dd'd twice with the dups put in sda and sdb. That is why it didn't work. The superblock knows which drive it was on, and knows if there are dupes. But I thought the locations were re-detected at boot/assembly time. The other question is whether it is possible to change the uuid while the system is running or if it would have to be done from a CD boot. I've cloned several machines from one initial setup and if copies of the disks ever find their way back into one box I'd prefer not to have the wrong set try to re-sync. The locations can re-detect, but I still think it will stop if it detects 2 identical superblocks. I don't think you can change the UUID of a running array, and I'm not sure if you can do it easily on a stopped array. I think the safest thing is to use the --add to join the pair. Since they are dd clones, the sync should be fairly fast. Just be careful. I know that it seems like an easy way to clone machines, but I think there are better and safer ways to clone machines. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: upgrade Fedora - Centos
on 6-12-2008 5:20 AM Sergej Kandyla spake the following: Hi all, Is there some way to upgrade from Fedora Core 6 to Centos 5 (on remote serv) ? Thanks in advice! You could try a remote anaconda upgrade using vnc. Something like this; http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2005/06/15/upgrading_to_centos4_over_a_remote_vnc_c but with adjustments. You would still need to look for orphans, and the usual things. Maybe if you backed up configs and data files and removed as many packages as you could to minimize the hassle. Even though RHEL5 is based on Fedora 6, I think the package freeze was about mid-cycle, and Fedora kept evolving after the freeze. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: CUPS problem
on 6-14-2008 1:00 PM Ivan Arteaga spake the following: Hello, I am running centOS 4.3 and my cups print server suddenly stopped working, now when i reboot the server it hangs a time starting the cups service and when finally the system boots up, everything remains in the queue but not printing at all. Strange thing is all the print jobs appears owned by the user nobody. anytime i try to cancel a job i cant because it tell me i have no rights to do it despite im logged as root. Via webmin i got the error: lprm: unable to lprm jobs I will appreciate any comment or tip. Regards, --Ivan. Are you really that far behind updates that you are still on 4.3? Current is 4.6, and there have been at least 3 cups updates since 4.3. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: apt on Centos 5.1
on 6-18-2008 5:52 AM Johnny Hughes spake the following: Mike wrote: Just read on planet centos that you can easily install apt on Centos too using yum. However, I get : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# yum install apt Loading installonlyn plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments Nothing to do So not sure what I am missing .. And sorry if this isn't the right place to ask :) Linux and CentOS are about choice. Dag is a CentOS Developer and he does like apt. I'm sure Dag (and others) can help with apt questions here. That said there are alot of features in yum (like fastestmirror, priorities, installonlyn, and repoquery) that are not available in apt. There are also probably features in apt that are not in yum. Apt may easy to install and user friendly ... heck, it may even be better than yum, however it is not officially supported. The officially supported way to do updates on CentOS is yum ... and yumex is in the CentOS Extras repo as a GUI based system for updates. You can certainly ask about apt on CentOS here, though most of the CentOS developers use yum and the QA testing we do is with yum and not apt. This is not meant to be negative about apt use, just point out that yum is the official way to do updates. Thanks, Johnny Hughes And I would assume that apt won't be able to update from the CentOS repos. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: nss_ldap (was Re: Could this be an advantage of CentOS over the PNAELV distribution?_
on 6-18-2008 6:34 AM Johnny Hughes spake the following: Meenoo Shivdasani wrote: There is a bug with nss_ldap and bash32 ... I created a new RPM for the nss_ldap that is currently in our testing repo. Johnny, I was wondering if that RPM includes the security fixes detailed in https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0389.html Yes, it contains all the pathces for that issue and has a work around for the bash32 issue. Note: This file is in our testing repo and will not be released on the ISOs or in the Updates repo ... but will be in the release notes and can be used by users who would LIKE to try it. We also created a kernel for bz32 that is in testing repo as well (that is fixed in 5.2). CentOS routinely creates patched RPMs like these to make available to our users (and upstream users / testers if they want). We also actively submit and track bugs and patches (if we have a fix) to the upstream bugzilla all the time. However, we do NOT roll these fixes in until they come down from upstream ... as we aim for binary compatibility, even for bugs. That is the only way to ensure things work the same. We also want to make the entire EL codebase better, not fork our EL codebase away from upsream like Oracle does with unbreakable linux. Thanks, Johnny Hughes I am sure that RH appreciates it also. The fact that CentOS contributes so much probably give them a favored stepchild status, instead of just a user. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Forbidden: You don't have permission to access /phpMyAdmin/ on this server.
on 6-18-2008 10:32 AM Herta Van den Eynde spake the following: Environment: - CentOS 5.1, - Apache 2.2.3 - php 5.1.6 - phpMyAdmin 2.11.6 - MySQL 5.0.22 Brand new system, brand new installation of all the above products. All looks well, but when I try to connect to phpMyAdmin, I get an error: Forbidden: You don't have permission to access /phpMyAdmin/ on this server. I'll forgo all the paths I followed trying to get this to work and cut to the solution: I renamed the phpMyAdmin directory to pma, copied all files in the pma directory to a new phpMyAdmin (FWIIW, using 'cp -pr'), and voil�, problem vanished. (I cannot explain why I even tried that.) My first idea was that maybe the copy somehow resolved some issue at the directory level, but when I output an 'ls -laR' of the two directories to two files, 'diff' shows both files to be identical (apart from the timestamps on . and .. directories). The pma and phpMyAdmin directories reside in the same documentroot, have the same ownership, and the same permissions. This must be about the weirdest experience in my professional career. If anyone can shed a light on this, it'd be most welcome. I still have the original (malfunctioning) directory on the system to bounce ideas off if anyone has any inspiration (system will go live this weekend). Kind regards, Herta Just a side note, but pma is one of the directories the script kiddies hammer on my servers regularly. You had better hide it better than that, or make sure it isn't accessible from the world. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: remote access info please
on 6-18-2008 12:13 PM Frank Cox spake the following: On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:41:00 -0500 Monty Shinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also believe you can port (tunnel?) VNC through ssh, but I have only heard about that, so I may be off here. You can indeed do that. It's very easy to set up and any number of web pages contain step-by-step instructions for how to make it work. And with putty and XMing you can even do it from a (cough, duck) Windows machine. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: remote access info please
on 6-18-2008 9:17 PM Filipe Brandenburger spake the following: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 4:28 PM, John Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use NX and find it amazing. I downloaded the RPMs from nomachine.com because I had not found that they are built in one of the repos (testing if memory serves). I second that. NX works over SSH so its connection is encrypted by default (you don't have to mess with tunnels). Also, NX response time is hard to beat, and its graphics are better than VNC a long shot. And you have clients for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. The clients are really easy to set up (unlike XMing for instance). Xming was pretty easy to set-up. Run the windows installer, set putty sessions to forward X, and it just worked. But NX is a better option, but not necessarily an easier one. What I like about XMing and putty is just getting the remote window I am running, and not a whole scaled desktop. And I was already using putty on a daily basis, so it was the least complicated for me. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Pulling Hair Out - TWiki 4.2 on CentOS 5
on 6-19-2008 5:11 AM Chuck spake the following: Once I build a system and bring it to our defined baseline, I rarely use rpm from that point forward...I custom roll almost everything -- especially apache. (red hat's layout makes my skin crawl) I'm curious then... why use it (RedHat)? There are other options that would give you the control you want. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Pulling Hair Out - TWiki 4.2 on CentOS 5
on 6-19-2008 6:46 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake the following: On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:14:04 -0500 Chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yea dude the red hat specific instructions are for a much older version of twiki. 1. Actually, they still work, the install instructions have not changed. 2. I use them to install twiki about 2 month ago, and it worked. Maybe they don't work if you hack the heart out of RedHat and replace with a different one first. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: What will the upgrade to 5.2 be like?
on 6-19-2008 5:37 AM Robert Moskowitz spake the following: I have a few servers that I really have to build already. Got to buckle down and get it done; no more waiting for 5.2 as a 'reason' to put it off for another day. I will be building a local repository for 5.2 as soon as the ISOs are posted (well as soon as my 768Kb DSL link will allow), so what am I looking at for the 'cost' of the upgrade? Your breath will suddenly be minty fresh, your hair will grow back, you will lose weight and gain muscle mass, even your lower regions will become bigger. For women, your hips will firm and your belly will be flat. You will look 10 years younger and feel 20 years younger! You will be the envy of your peers! Now seriously; What do you mean by cost. If you mirror the upstream release, that should be your biggest bandwidth usage. Then point your servers at your local repo and yum update. Then probably a reboot as there is a new kernel release. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: lvm with iscsi devices on boot
on 6-19-2008 11:42 AM Raja Subramanian spake the following: Hi All, My CentOS 5.1 server is using iSCSI attached disks connecting to a dual controller storage array. I have also configured multipathd to manage the multiple paths. Everything works well, and on boot the dev nodes are automatically created in /dev/mapper. On these devices, I have created logical volumes using lvm2. My problem is that lvm does not recognize these iscsi/multipath volumes on boot up. I need to manually run vgchange -ay and mount the logical volumes by hand. I tried running the vgchange and mount commands from /etc/rc.local, but that has no effect. I have verified that /etc/rc.local itself is executing correctly. What do I need to put in my boot up scripts so logical volumes in iscsi/multipathd devices are automatically recognized on boot? TIA! - Raja LVM initialization is fairly early in the init. It is probably running long before your iscsi connector is starting. Maybe you could try moving its startup earlier? -- 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
[CentOS] Re: What will the upgrade to 5.2 be like?
on 6-19-2008 1:15 PM Rob Townley spake the following: Security Stability when it comes to web browsers and i wonder if 1.5 is more secure than 2.14. i wonder when 1.x will not have security patches anymore. rh must document that somewhere and i will have to find it. That is probably the reason for the new version. Most of the time RedHat only issues new versions when backporting becomes difficult/impossible. They are almost as protective as Debian has been. A web browser crashing on a distro originally designed for servers was probably a low priority for them. They probably assume that a browser is usually used to read docs or download packages. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: 3ware performance in CentOS
on 6-19-2008 1:05 PM Ruslan Sivak spake the following: Jim Perrin wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Florin Andrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a look at these pages: http://www.bofh-hunter.com/2008/06/13/3ware-performance-in-centos/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444759 I'm comparing the default 5.1 64bit kernel with the patched one posted in the bug report (kernel-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5.bz32.x86_64) and I don't quite see any significant difference in write performance for this command: You are comparing the wrong kernels. The bz32 kernel was for an NFS related bug and has no 3 impact on 3ware performance. The redhat bug report has the kernels built for 3ware performance. Once 5.2 is rolled out, Johnny Hughes has stated he would consider building a kernel for the 444759 bug. How would I know if I'm affected by this bug? I'm using the 9690SA controller. Russ Does the stock drivers even support that controller yet? -- 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
[CentOS] Re: A couple of security questions
on 6-20-2008 12:41 AM Luigi Perroti spake the following: Hello, I'd like to ask a couple of things: 1) I would like to move from Debian to CentOS. One thing I will probably miss is the debsecan tool. This utility sends me a mail whenever there is a change regarding the vulnerabilities' status on my system. It lists new ones, resolved ones and current ones. Is there anything similar for CentOS? Right now the closest thing you will get is the Centos-announce list. But stay tuned... -- 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
[CentOS] Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt
on 6-20-2008 8:23 AM Lanny Marcus spake the following: On 6/20/08, Alwin Roosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip CentOS release 5 (Final) Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 on an i686 ws174 login: CPU 1: Machine Check Exception: 0005 CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0004 Bank 3: f6220002010a at 32c93500 Bank 5: f2300c000e0f Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt Bank 3: f6220002010a Phil or someone else: Do the three (3) Bank lines above indicate RAM problems? If not, what do they refer to? Alwin wrote that this is brand new HW, so he suspects that it is OK, but it doesn't seem to be OK? Lanny As most of us have found out at some time; brand new does not always equal OK. I have had plenty of hardware that was dead on arrival or dead in days. Check the obvious of re-seating all removable parts like memory and cards, and also any option cards for second processors if they are included. Shipping or moving equipment can loosen things. Also look at the memory to see if it is on the recommended list for the motherboard. -- 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
[CentOS] Re: centos 4.6 - 586 install - how to get that to a 486 level if possible
on 6-21-2008 6:17 AM Jerry Geis spake the following: Sorry, I have no clue about your question. However, I have several AMD K6 chips (pentium-equivalent) lying around should you trip over a motherboard that'll run them. That would solve your 486 problem, I think, so let me know if such a chip would help you out. Fred - thanks for the offer - however I do have a specific device I am targeting. Ebox2300sx. I have no options on the hardware. It would be a great solution hardware wise but software is being a bit of a pain at this time. Johnny - thanks for the info. I actually have debian booted on the device but then EVERYTHING is so much different on debian than centos. I was also trying a redhat 9 install and put a 2.6 kernel on it. However, I realize this is not the best solution. BUT - to try it out and get something working with the other programs I need I thought that might be a valid short term path to check things out. Thanks guys, Jerry I still think Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, or one of the BSD's will be your best option on that hardware. But Gentoo would take forever to compile/install on that hardware. -- 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
