[CentOS] CentOS 5.2 and wired Ethernet on a Macbook Pro?

2009-03-26 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I recently installed CentOS 5.2 64-bit on a partition on a MacBook Pro 17 inch. It installed just fine, but wired Ethernet is not available. lspci shows it as nVidia...unknown. Is it possible to get wired Ethernet running on this laptop under CentOS without having to create a virtual machine

[Samba] The referenced account is currently locked out...

2009-02-20 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I recently changed the subnet of several computers on an isolated LAN, that LAN utilizing RHEL 5.0 server (out-of-box, no patches) with Samba and several Windows XP w/SP2 systems. After the subnet change, if I log in as local admin to any of the Windows systems, and try Start Run

[Samba] XP local policy vs Samba pdbedit?

2009-02-19 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
If I set up a room of Win XP Pro w/SP2 systems, hardened via local policy and gpedit.msc, and add them to a samba domain running from an unpatched, out-of-box install of RHEL 5.0, how will the local XP policies differ from any changes I make to pdbedit on the Samba side? Which takes

[Samba] Help with Samba, RHEL 5.0, and policies

2009-02-17 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I have an isolated LAN with an out-of-box installation of RHEL 5.0 Server 64-bit running samba, with some CentOS 5.0 systems and Windows XP w/SP2 machines. The XP machines are part of a domain via the RHEL Samba setup. I want to be able to control such things as the XP Event Viewer loggings

[Samba] Windows patching from Linux samba server?

2009-01-29 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I have an out-of-box, unpatched RedHat Enterprise 5 server acting as a samba PDC for a handful of Windows XP systems on a domain. This is on an isolated network - no Internet connectivity. Is there a way to configure the samba server to act as a Windows SUS server for patch pushing? If so,

[CentOS] RAID level and killing a job

2009-01-13 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
First question - under CentOS 5, if I created non LVM partitions on a server with 6 disks - 2 disks are RAID 1 (OS), how do I remind myself or inquire the type of RAID of the remaining 4 disks (RAID 1 or RAID 5), without having to reboot? Second question - A newly installed server consisting

Re: [CentOS] RAID level and killing a job

2009-01-13 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 10:04 -0800, nate wrote: snip Second question - A newly installed server consisting of CentOS 5.2, straight off the DVD, I invoke a command by hand, realize I want to kill it soon after (logged in as root). I issue ps

mount as ro for users, rw for root?

2008-12-14 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
Under CentOS 5.2, is it possible to mount an iscsi filesystem/partition as rw for root, but ro for users? If so, what would be the proper syntax? Thanks. Scott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[CentOS] mount as ro for users, rw for root?

2008-12-13 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
Under CentOS 5.2, is it possible to mount an iscsi filesystem/partition as rw for root, but ro for users? If so, what would be the proper syntax? Thanks. Scott ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Help with Dell MD3000i, snapshots, and CentOS 5.2

2008-12-10 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I have a Dell MD3000i connected to a PowerEdge 2950 server running out-of-box CentOS 5.2 64-bit, unpatched, on an isolated test LAN. I also purchased the snapshot premium feature. Using the included Modular Disk Storage Manager, I successfully activated the premium feature, and manually

RE: Help with Dell MD3000i, snapshots, and CentOS 5.2

2008-12-10 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
Hi Shyam: Yes, I've seen that pdf before. Unfortunately, none of the documentation I have, nor none of exploration of mdsm, has led me to the answers, hence my emails to this list. It is all high-level. I'm aiming for specifics. I think once I have answers to the simple request of how to

[Linux-cluster] Need help with Dell MD3000i and snapshots

2008-11-18 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I purchased an MD3000i, purchased the snapshot premium feature, using the MD Storage Manager partitioned space in a raid set for snapshots and assigned said space for snapshots. Now, of all Dell's documentation I have, nothing tells me how to actually configure the allocated snapshot space

Etch and ATI Xpress 200G video support?

2008-11-09 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I have a Compaq desktop whose motherboard has an intergrated ATI Tech RS480 [Radeon Xpress 200G series] video card. I have pretty decent video support now under Ubuntu. If I were to switch to Debian, what are people's experiences with video support for this card? This is a home PC, so I

Re: [CentOS] S.M.A.R.T

2008-08-30 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
If using Linux, smart runs as a daemon and watches all drives. What I've done is create a cron job that searches /var/log/messages for the word smart and emails me the result. If I get a blank message, no drive problems, The following url has a sample of what /var/log/messages might show

[CentOS] iscsi and the last mile...

2008-08-20 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I have a new Dell PowerEdge 2950 running CentOS 5.0 out-of-box and a Dell MD3000i. I am new to iscsi and, with google and included documentation, am having a heck of a time trying to get the RAID volumes I have created on the 3000i to be seen by the OS as usuable drives.I have printed out

Re: [CentOS] iscsi and the last mile...

2008-08-20 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Jim Wildman wrote: Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: I have a new Dell PowerEdge 2950 running CentOS 5.0 out-of-box and a Dell MD3000i. I am new to iscsi and, with google and included documentation, am having a heck of a time trying to get the RAID volumes I have created

RE: [CentOS] iscsi and the last mile...

2008-08-20 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote: having a heck of a time trying to get the RAID volumes I have created on the 3000i to be seen by the OS as usuable drives. What's the size of the volume(s)? I am currently experimenting with 2 x 500 GB Post the output from #fdisk -l Done many

[CentOS] 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 history/diff?

2008-06-24 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
Is there a detailed history/diff of what 5.1 adds/removes/changes from 5.0, and the same for 5.2 from 5.1 and 5.0? I checked around the centos.org but couldn't obviously find this. Thanks. Scott ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 history/diff?

2008-06-24 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
Ignore. I found it. On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: Is there a detailed history/diff of what 5.1 adds/removes/changes from 5.0, and the same for 5.2 from 5.1 and 5.0? I checked around the centos.org but couldn't obviously find this. Thanks. Scott

Help with gcc 4.3.x and libfortran errors

2008-06-19 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I am trying to install gcc 4.3.0 or 4.3.1 on a 64-bit CentOS 5.0 machine, fully patched, and keep getting: make[3]: *** [libgfortran.la] error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory /path/to/source/libgfortran make[2]: *** [all] error 2 make[2]: leaving directory /path/to source/libgfortran make[1]: ***

[CentOS] Need GLIBCXX-3.4.9 for /usr/lib64/libstdc++

2008-06-19 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I am trying to compile an application on a CentOS 5.0 64-bit machine that gives me the error: /usr/local/bin/myprog: /usr/lib64/libstdc++: version `GLIBXX.3.4.9' not found (required by /usr/local/bin/myprog) I have gcc 4.2.3. I've performed a yum install compat-* and glibc* What am I

[CentOS] Help with gcc 4.3.x and libfortran errors

2008-06-19 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I am trying to install gcc 4.3.0 or 4.3.1 on a 64-bit CentOS 5.0 machine, fully patched, and keep getting: make[3]: *** [libgfortran.la] error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory /path/to/source/libgfortran make[2]: *** [all] error 2 make[2]: leaving directory /path/to source/libgfortran make[1]: ***

Re: [BBLISA] DiMio's tonight 7pm - 13 people

2008-06-11 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
For additional parking, there is the Porter Square shopping center if you actually head down Beacon Street (where it branches from Mass Ave). Scott On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: These are the people currently rsvp'd for tonight. If there's any change, please let me know

Re: [BBLISA] IT Beer Pizza social - Weds the 11th at 7pm at Dimio's

2008-06-06 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I'll aim for it On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Sean OMeara wrote: I may show up -s On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 4:21 PM, David Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll be there. Dave On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Ok, just to be sure - I'm not overstepping anything next Weds, right? Weds the

[CentOS] rpm -q versus what's installed

2008-06-04 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
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

[Nagios-users] Need help with Nagios, PERC, and likely false warning

2008-04-16 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I have a Dell PE2950 with PERC 5/i. The server suffered a failed disk under RAID 0. I obtained a replacement disk, rebuilt the system from the ground up (new logical volumes within the controller, new OS install) and the system is happy now. I installed nagios on a low-end PC (CentOS 5), and

[CentOS] Command to get tape capacity status?

2008-04-11 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I have an Overland tape library connected, via SCSI card, to an out-of-box, full install of C5 install on an old PC. I have a script that uses tar to archive data to tape and mtx to change tapes. What I don't know, if possible, is to obtain the status of how much tape is left in the drive.

[Nagios-users] Need help with nrpe

2008-04-02 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I have some Dell PowerEdge Linux servers that I want to monitor with nrpe. I've installed nrpe daemon on the servers, and nrpe client on my nagios station, which is a simple low-end desktop. I've configured nrpe enough that nagios at least presents me with a service line on the server that the

RE: [BBLISA] Know any (real) MS Excel experts?

2008-03-28 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
Have you tried the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list? They may have some local leads. I presume this is for Excel for Windows, and not the Mac? Scott On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Tal Cohen wrote: Not an Excel expert, but I would write a perl script that migrates the excel data into a MySQL database and

Re: [CentOS] RHEL on The Pirate Bay, Mininova, etc

2008-03-25 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
Let's not forget one fundamental fact - can you easily download RHEL from Redhat's site? If yes, then it was meant to be publicly distributed. If no, it was not, and such copies should not be trusted. My philosophy - if you cannot obtain a copy of what you want from the original

GUI login banner at console?

2008-03-24 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I've tried most every other unpaid path, with no luck, so maybe the developers forum will yield some insights... I've just installed 7.10 64-bit on a workstation and want to produce a multi-line X Windows text banner with an acknowledgement button (OK/Yes/whatever) on the console before the

Re: [CentOS] Overland Arcvault 12 and sequential/random settings

2008-03-14 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
But for writing to tape: $ tar cvf /dev/st0 /etc I think the dmesg told me which device to use to control. mjh On 13/03/2008, Scott R. Ehrlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My unit's firmware: library 05.03, tape d22h, shows the device as set to random mode. But mtx -f /dev/st0 status gives

[CentOS] Incremental backups?

2008-03-14 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
So I thought I'd get a head start for next week - I have a low-power Linux box that has a few samba shares mounted, and limited hard disk space. This box is connected to a tape library via SCSI card. I want to find the best way to create a full, then incremental backup of the samba

[BBLISA] Incremental backups?

2008-03-14 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
So I thought I'd get a head start for next week - I have a low-power Linux box that has a few samba shares mounted, and limited hard disk space. This box is connected to a tape library via SCSI card. I want to find the best way to create a full, then incremental backup of the samba mounts,

[CentOS] Overland Arcvault 12 and sequential/random settings

2008-03-13 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
My unit's firmware: library 05.03, tape d22h, shows the device as set to random mode. But mtx -f /dev/st0 status gives an error that google says the device is in sequential mode. dmesg|grep -i hp does reflect CentOS thinks the device is a sequential unit. I've tried this with Fedora 8, too,

[CentOS] Adding samba clients to samba server

2008-03-11 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I have an application that requires the use of netbios names instead of IP addresses, and the company that produces the application says that's the way it is. I have a Windows XP machines running the application, and I want to add it to a domain controller. I have a Centos 5 machine onto

[Moin-user] Help Migrating 1.5.5a from Linux to Windows

2008-03-09 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
[I sent this to the list, but not sure it properly propagated, so I'm sending it again] I have been charged with the task of migrating a production Moin 1.5.5a wiki from Linux to a Windows XP Pro w/Service Pack 2 system. I did get the out of box configuration going with Apache2 and

Re: [CentOS] C5 64-bit and software RAID 6?

2008-03-08 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Sat, March 8, 2008 19:18, Mogens Kjaer wrote: Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with 6 SAS disks and a PERC 5/i controller what won't do RAID 6. I plan to have 2 drives as RAID 1 for the OS, and the remaining 4 as RAID 6

[CentOS] PE2950, RAID 0, failed disk

2008-03-08 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with PERC 5/i, and 6 disks. Two disks have one logical volume via a hardware RAID 1 and consist of CentOS 5 64-bit; the remaining four comprise a logical volume via a hardware RAID 0, and is all user data. One drive on the RAID 0 went bad. I removed it while

[Moin-user] Help Migrating 1.5.5a from Linux to Windows

2008-03-07 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I have been charged with the task of migrating a production Moin 1.5.5a wiki from Linux to a Windows XP Pro w/Service Pack 2 system. I did get the out of box configuration going with Apache2 and ActivePerl, but now I need to learn how to integrate the links and other stuff from the Linux

[CentOS] Moving from RAID 0 to LVM RAID?

2008-03-06 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
So I've learned a valuable RAID 0 lesson, and it fortunately was not a major catastrophy. I got lucky, and had a workable-enough backup on tape to make the user who needed some data happy. Now, from the OS side, LVM is an option. Say the RAID controller only allows hardware striping or

[BBLISA] PE2950, RAID 0, failed disk

2008-03-06 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with PERC 5/i, and 6 disks. Two disks have one logical volume via a hardware RAID 1 and consist of CentOS 5 64-bit; the remaining four comprise a logical volume via a hardware RAID 0, and is all user data. One drive on the RAID 0 went bad. I removed it while

[BBLISA] Moving from RAID 0 to LVM RAID?

2008-03-06 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
So I've learned a valuable RAID 0 lesson, and it fortunately was not a major catastrophy. I got lucky, and had a workable-enough backup on tape to make the user who needed some data happy. Now, from the OS side, LVM is an option. Say the RAID controller only allows hardware striping or

[CentOS] Error reading block x (Attempt to read block...)

2008-03-05 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
A Centos 5 64-bit server reflected some SCSI kernel errors in the logs, so I opted to reboot, only to be prompted to perform a manual fsck, that an automatic fsck wouldn't be permitted. As a result, the fsck is taking a long time, as I have to babysit the server for every bad block that is

[Nagios-users] Nagios service for Windows?

2008-03-04 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
Has the Nagios central service been ported to Windows? I know the central monitoring system is available for the Redhat and Debian worlds, but does it exist for Windows? I have a Windows XP machine I may want to use as the NOC. Thanks. Scott

Re: [CentOS] C5 64-bit on Dell not seeing 1 GB link

2008-02-20 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Adam Breaux wrote: Are you using CAT5e or CAT6 cabling? What brand of switch are you using? I was misinformed. The desktop connections are actually 100 Mb. But, we did get to learn about a few tools and methods to check the link and make changes, so it was not wasted

[BBLISA] Tape drives?

2007-07-23 Thread Scott R Ehrlich
I'm pricing tape drives for high reliability. What vendor and what type do more people trust - Quantum or Dell, or someone else? Also, SDLT or LTO? Price is not so much an issue as is reliability.I aim for rack mount, but that isn't so important if a suitable tape drive comes along that

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 yum update needs gpg key import

2007-07-12 Thread Scott R Ehrlich
Quoting Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Scott Ehrlich wrote: Media checked fine with both md5sum and sha1sum. I believe I obtained my DVD version from kernel.org, and were obtained within the last couple of months. what does this say : 'rpm -qf /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo' sudo

[BBLISA] Sysadmin job addendum

2007-05-16 Thread Scott R Ehrlich
Sorry to spam - The position I just posted about is located in Lexington, MA Scott ___ bblisa mailing list bblisa@bblisa.org http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa

[BBLISA] Good ol' Digital Unix 5.0

2007-03-15 Thread Scott R Ehrlich
What files in a Digital Unix 5.0 OSF1 system on an Alpha box need to be tweaked to log failed attempts at objects (files/folders/etc), login attempts, and even if some kind of virus protection can be installed (uvscan/clamav). Thanks. Scott ___ bblisa

[BBLISA] Help with Dell PE2950 and RAID5 setup

2007-03-07 Thread Scott R Ehrlich
I've got a new PE2950 rack system with PERC controller and 6 drives set up contiguously as one RAID5 volume on the PERC controller. Using 64-bit CentOS 4.4, I partitioned for /boot having 100 Meg, swap having 2 gig, and / with the rest (removed LVM). After the install was complete, the system

[BBLISA] Streaming audio from CentOS 4.4?

2007-02-13 Thread Scott R Ehrlich
I've set up a streaming audio server, connecting my scanner at home to my laptop running XP Home w/Ogg Vorbis and Icecast. Then, at work, I use Realplayer to listen during the day or when I'm at someone else's computer and want to monitor activity and don't have a radio with me.The

[BBLISA] LCD display privacy filters?

2007-01-02 Thread Scott R Ehrlich
Anyone know where I can get 24 inch or larger privacy filters for an LCD display? 3M doesn't seem to carry them. A google search shows only up to 21 inches. Thanks. Scott ___ bblisa mailing list bblisa@bblisa.org

[BBLISA] Need a KVM...

2006-11-30 Thread Scott R Ehrlich
4-port 2 dvi video connectors per port + console usb per port Thanks for any/all leads. Scott ___ bblisa mailing list bblisa@bblisa.org http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa

Lingo VOIP and modem training probs

2006-11-18 Thread Scott R Ehrlich
I set up a trial ISP at home with a 30-day trial of Lingo for VOIP, a USR 56K external modem, and the latest install of Debian. I followed the ppp configuration according to http://tvilda.stilius.net/callback_en.php My goal is to use my home setup as an ISP to permit my PDAs to dial via

[BBLISA] List of installed apps in Windows?

2006-11-16 Thread Scott R Ehrlich
Is there a utility which can query a Windows machine (NT 4.0, 2000, XP) and produce a list of installed applications? Not all programs register with Add/Remove programs. Some simply end up in Start Programs. The idea, as well, is to find a utility (even within Windows itself) to produce such

[BBLISA] Home PPP/ISP server help needed

2006-11-08 Thread Scott R Ehrlich
I'm about to trial a VOIP provider (lingo) to set up my home network as an ISP. I plan to use my FC5 machine as the PPP server. What is the preferred/recommended/best way to configure my FC5 box as a ppp server?What are the recommended packages? What are recommended links? There are many

[BBLISA] Duo Core lesson thank you

2006-10-23 Thread Scott R Ehrlich
Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who responded to my query so quickly over the weekend and provided a very valuable education. I didn't think dual-processor (seperate socket) laptops existed, and I'd heard Core 2 Duo was like it, but need to learn more from reliable, educated sources. These

[BBLISA] Knoppix and dd limitations

2006-09-27 Thread Scott R Ehrlich
I downloaded the newest (5.0.1) version of Knoppix live on DVD. I've successfully mounted a Windows share on a Knoppix DVD boot for a dual-boot hard drive I want to image. During the imaging process, dd keeps producing a file size limitation when hitting the 2.097G mark. I'm using the basic

Re: [BBLISA] Knoppix and dd limitations

2006-09-27 Thread Scott R Ehrlich
Quoting Tim Winter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Scott, Are you sure your dd syntax is correct? It looks like what you are doing is creating a very large image file in the mount_point folder, not copying the image from one drive to another. If you are just trying to clone a drive, you probably want to

[Help] Replaying Tightvnc java sessions

2006-06-26 Thread Scott R Ehrlich
I have some recorded sessions of web-based Java VNC connections to a remote host, with the encoding being Tight (the default). The java session saves the files as vncsession.fbs.00x (where x is 1 to n). Problem is, of all the tools I've learned of via google, nothing has yet been able to play

[BBLISA] 32 or 64-bit PC?

2006-06-06 Thread Scott R Ehrlich
Is there any easy/free way to figure out of a particular PC can support a 64-bit OS, other than visiting the manufacturer's web site and hoping they offer some insight? Thanks. Scott ___ bblisa mailing list bblisa@bblisa.org

[BBLISA] Re: RHEL and Windows simultaneously?

2006-04-12 Thread Scott R Ehrlich
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:39:05AM -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote: I currently have my system booting Windows XP installed on a 40 Gig IDE drive. I'm going to add an 80 Gig IDE drive to the system, and plan to RHEL on it. I'd ultimately like to make RH the primary OS

[BBLISA] Redhat Enterprise syslog GUI?

2006-04-11 Thread Scott R Ehrlich
Does a Windows-like Eventviewer program exist for at least RHEL to permit graphical viewing and sorting of /var/log/syslog system events? This utility should only be part of the standard RH distribution and not a public domain third-party option. Thanks. Scott

[BBLISA] Residential energy inquiry

2006-04-03 Thread Scott R Ehrlich
As many of us have computer setups at home that consume energy, and we like to also save a few dollars wherever possible, I wanted to get your input for competitive energy suppliers with NStar as the infrastructure provider. I recently received a letter from Dominion Retail for fixed-rate